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THE LOVE OF A FATHER AND A MOTHER, 

TO 

THE FAITH OF A SISTER, 

TO 

THE FORTITUDE OF A WIFE, 

TO 


THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE OMNIPRESENT TEACHER. 



The author prefers to travel incognito, thus relieving himself 
of being conspicuous, at the same time permitting this book to 
sell on its own merit. 

The name of the author would add nothing to the value of 
the book. The absence of the name will take nothing from its 
worth. 

A rose by any other name should smell as sweet, and would 
were it not for the prejudice of nasal nerves. 

RIDGE REVILO, 

Nom de plume. 



4 


QJtje Henson 


As the reason for these pages we quote the words of Major- 
General O. O. Howard, of the United States Army. He says: 

“One of the ablest clergyman that I ever heard preach, the Rev. 
Dr. J. W. French, years ago the chaplain and professor of ethics 
at the Military Academy, had a great power of condensing his 
thoughts. 

“His English was good, pure, expressive, simple enough; but, 
as might be expected, preaching to army officers who were 
absorbed the entire week in scientific study and instruction, and 
to cadets who were laboring with academic and tactical tasks, 
Dr. French failed to command their attention, even in his best 
efforts. 

“One Sunday morning an officer of high rank and a great 
student of everything pertaining to the army, especially to arms 
and ammunition, said to me as he emerged from the chapel: 
‘Somehow Dr. French’s words go into one ear and out the other 
and I cannot seize and hold his thoughts.’ As I was intimate 
with Dr. French, my pastor, I ventured to tell him this remark, 
and he said: ‘What can I do? I prepare my sermons with great 
care and deliver them as well as I can.’ I said: ‘Doctor, try an 
experiment. You have a great store of knowledge—a larger one 
than any man of my acquaintance, for you have read everything 
and your memory is exceedingly retentive. Begin your next dis¬ 
course by an interesting incident or story like those you so 
frequently tell to your friends in private. You can get one that 
will be directly pertinent to the subject in hand.’ 

“The next Sabbath the doctor did as I suggested and the result 
was what I expected—young men, accustomed to drop to sleep 
as soon as the sermon set in, were kept awake, and the whole 
congregation was absorbed in interest and listened to that sermon 
from beginning to end. 

“The scientific officer, as he left the chapel that day, again 
spoke to me and said: ‘Dr. French was wonderfully interesting 
today, and I enjoyed his sermon more than ever before.’ 

“The plain truth was that that sermon was not a whit better 
than any other one wdiich Dr. French had delivered, but he suc¬ 
ceeded in riveting the attention of his hearers by an apt story. 
All that I have written with regard to the preaching of the gospel 
is from a layman’s standpoint.” 

This expression of Major-General Howard, coming from a man 
whose Christian habit it is to attend statedly upon the church 
service expresses not exaggeratedly the experience of a multitude 
of preachers and of congregations. If such a man as Dr. French, 
with such ability and such an audience, comparatively failed for 
the lack of this one thing, and noticeably succeeded when this 
one thing was given attention to, how much more can be expected 
in the ministry of other preachers if they give attention in their 
sermons to the art of illustration! 


5 


Suggestion 

The author suggests that you take one minute when a BOTTLE 
is used and check ( V) up the illustration itself; also check it 
up in the word index, also in the Scripture index. Thus you will 
save the time of referring to that illustration for use. 

For instance, in Bottle No. 2, should the illustration be used in 
connection with John 10. 10, check up that particular quotation. 

Turn to the WORD index and check up Abundances No. 2; 
Water No. 2; Famine No. 2; Fountain No. 2; Overflowing No. 2; 

Turn to SCRIPTURE index and check up John 10. 10, No. 2; 
Gal. 5. 22, No. 2; Psa. 23. 5, No. 2; Titus 3. 6, No. 2; Psa. 65. 9, 
No. 2. 

Thus you will avoid any rereference except it is fully purposed, 
and much time will be saved. 


In the quotation of Scripture, the American Revised Version 
is uniformly followed. 

A method that might be called “Suggestive Quotation,” based 
on the original languages, is followed in many instances, as in 
Acts 24. 16. “I work myself up to have a conscience.” 

The author has, for your benefit, spent considerable time in 
selecting texts that in themselves are calculated to preach half a 
sermon. 

He has been very careful in setting certain Scriptures with 
certain illustrations. 

For this reason, when you look at an illustration and at Scrip¬ 
tures quoted in connection with it and think there is a misfit, 
look a little longer and a little closer , you will see what the 
author saw after he had taken time to see. 


POEM BOTTLES, 25, 50, 75—100—125—150—175—200—225— 
250—275—300—325—350—375—400—425—450—475—500. 


Your special attention is called to the two indexes at the back 
of the volume, one for the Scripture references and the other for 
all of the “all-cap” words. 


6 



THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


7 


Pottle l 

Professor Tyndall in one of his works on sound tells us a 
remarkable fact as to the power of light over sound, or how light 
deadens NOISE. 

He tells of a cataract, coming under his immediate observation, 
that could be heard a distance of six miles in the nighttime. 

But the Falls could only be heard four and one half miles 
on a cloudy day. 

Let the clouds disappear and the sunlight be undimmed, and 
the same cataract can only be heard three miles away. There 
is a practical demonstration in this fact that natural light deadens 
noise. 

Wonderfully beautiful and encouraging, but just as true is our 
observation that spiritual light deadens noise. This we see often 
and wonderfully demonstrated. 

What a change is noted in the rude, rough, giddy life when 
once the sun of righteousness shines in on such a life! The 
GLADSOMENESS, the joy is still there, but the giddiness, the 
rudeness, the coarseness is gone. The LIGHT has killed out the 
noise. The TONGUE, untamable by man, is tamed of God. 

Wouldst thou be freed of every shade of coarseness or of giddi¬ 
ness?—Let in the light, for in proportion as the light comes in, 
the noise that mars the life must leave. 


Pottle 2 

It is but a few years since there was in Pennsylvania a great 
drought and then was illustrated the importance of ABUN¬ 
DANCES, and the difference between a shortage and a bounteous 
supply. The city of Altoona with its reservoir supply of WATER 
was soon compelled to curtail its use of water, and after a while 
the people of the city were not permitted to use the water except 
for certain specified purposes, and then only for certain hours 
indicated. 

Altoona was having a water FAMINE because the little moun¬ 
tain stream that fed and filled its reservoir dried up or was 
greatly diminished. 

But in another large city, in the same state and in the same 
drought district, there was the sound of abundance of water. 

In the center of that city was a FOUNTAIN that gushed up out 
of the earth, and all through the drought it was not apparent that 
it was in the least affected. OVERFLOWING its fountain basin 
as before, it gurgled on out to gladden man and beast as it fur¬ 
nished them of its abundance. 

How like two lives are these two cities! The time of drought; 
the trial time—the testing time—how parched the lips—how 
the life lacks vitality—how the spittle thickens—how much of 
comfort is cancelled! There is life but it is sickly and unsatis¬ 
fying. How different another life that lives in God’s abundance— 
that laves its face and bathes its body and drinks large draughts 
from his water fountain and is rejuvenated, made young in God’s 
abundance! Which of these lives is thine today? Which shall be 
thine in days and years to come? 


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THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


Pottle l 

Matt. 5. 14.—Ye are the light of the world. 

Prov. 10. 31.—The froward tongue shall be cut out. 
Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the Spirit is gentleness, 
refinement.) 

Jas. 3. 8.—The tongue can no man tame. 

1 Kings 7. 22.—Upon the top of the pillars, lilywork. 


Pottle 2 

^Tohn 10. 10.—And that they might have it abundantly. 
Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the Spirit is. 

Psa. 23. 5.—My cup runneth over. 

Titus 3, 6.—Which he shed on us abundantly, 

Psa. 65. 9.—The river of God is full of water. 


(Life- 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


9 


Pottle 3 

Several miles above Milton, Pa., when the ice was breaking up, 
a farmer got into one of his boats, purposing to pull it out of the 
river. 

A floating mass of ice struck it, breaking it loose from the 
mooring and carrying it with him out into the current. A 
neighbor, seeing the danger, mounted a horse and with all pos¬ 
sible SPEED rode down to Milton. 

The people of the town gathered all the ropes they could se¬ 
cure; they went out on the bridge and suspended a line of 
dangling ropes from the bridge across the river. They could not 
tell at just what point the boat, with the farmer, would pass under, 
so they put a rope down every two or three feet all the way 
across. 

Soon the farmer was seen standing in the boat, which was half 
full of water, drifting down the rapid current. When he saw the 
ropes dangling within reach he laid hold of the nearest one and 
was drawn up and SAVED. 

One rope might not have answered the purpose—could not have 
answered the purpose unless it had hanged in reach of the man. 
This row of ropes across the river made almost certain the 
RESCUE of this life. 

The PASTOR hangs the rope of salvation from the pulpit and 
here and there as he may have opportunity, and sometimes a soul 
DRIFTING in the currents of sin is rescued by the pastor’s 
ROPE. 

But how many more chances would the drifting sinner have 
if business men would hang out ropes; and young men and 
women hang out ropes; and mothers and wives would hang out 
ropes? 

This is the secret of a soul-saving church. 

Pottle 4 

The old promise to the church is constantly being fulfilled: “No 
weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.” 

It is said that the house in which VOLTAIRE once lived in 
Geneva is now used as a depot for Bibles. 

On the spot, in Peoria, Ill., where Infidel INGERSOLL prepared 
some of his calumnies against the church and his caricatures of 
the Scriptures'—on that spot now stands a building of the Young 
Men’s Christian Association. Many instances like these come to 
us from time to time. In demonstration of God’s faithful per¬ 
formance of his PROMISE. Could we know every instance they 
might fill volumes and would doubtless multiply themselves in 
hundreds. 

Pottle 5 

If you have read that little classic, Uncle John Vassar, you 
will remember how, in his later days, the old man was racked 
with most excruciating PAIN. Sleep departed from his eyes and 
he could not rest. And in awful agony he would drag the night 
through, but often during its long hours he was heard to say, 
“My God, how much BETTER this than SIN.” 


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THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


Pottle 3 

Dan. 12. 3.—They that turn many to righteousness shall shine. 
Prov. 11. 30.—He that is wise winneth souls. 

Acts 2. 1.—All with one accord in one place. 


Pottle 4 

Dan. 12. 3.—They that turn many to righteousness shall shine. 
Matt. 16. 18.—The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 

Isa. 54. 17.—No weapon formed against thee shall prosper. 


pottle 5 

Rom. 6. 23.—The wages of sin is death; the gift of God is 
eternal life. 

Prov. 11. 30.—He that is wise winneth souls. 

Matt. 8. 12.—The weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

Rev. 14. 11.—The smoke of their torment forever and ever. 

Rev. 22. 14.—Right to enter in through the gates. So shall we 
ever be with the Lord. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


11 


bottle 6 

An old Scotchman was forging anchor chains in a New England 
village. His rule was “Seven links a day and each link THE 
ANCHOR of a thousand souls.” 

By and by a new process used by others was proposed to this 
sturdy Highlander—“ten links a day and safe.” 

Others might-^not he. “Seven links a day, and strong” was 
safe—so he gave a day at the FORGE for ten. 

The Scotchman “slippet awa” and was forgotten, but the 
Scotchman lived in his anvil chains on through the years. 

A great ship is plowing its way across the deep and a great 
storm, with its relentless waves, is upon it—sharp and clear 
comes the command, “Cast out the first anchor.” Over the sides 
it goes with its great anchor chain following it—the anchor holds, 
the chain grows taut—and then, under the weight of an oncoming 
billow, it snaps like a thread. 

“Cast out the second anchor,” is the Captain’s call. The com¬ 
mand is obeyed, and down into the mad sea the anchor chain 
rushes like a great serpent, while the vessel rocks and shivers— 
the second anchor holds—but for one moment only. The chain 
stiffens like a rod of steel and like tow touched by fire it parts 
in twain and the great ship is adrift again. 

“Cast out the reserve ANCHOR,” the commander calls again, 
and the third great chain glides into the seething waters—will it 
stand the strain of the stormy sea, for anxious lives are welded 
in the links of this last chain? It stands the strain, it holds—the 
maddened waves are powerless to break one link and the twelve 
hundred SOULS on board are SAVED from the sea and until the 
sea lets go its strength the anchor holds and is drawn on board 
for another STORM. 

It is the chain of the sturdy old Scot. “Seven links a day and 
each link the anchor of a thousand souls.” 

Thy life work is an anchor chain—skimp not its links, lest some 
one trust them and sink in sin. 

Let abundance of labor be your motto; not too many links, nor 
too many chains, but each forged to stand the strain of the 
storms on the ocean of SIN. So shalt thou both SAVE thyself 
and others after thee. 

pottle 7 

On a street corner in Kansas City stood a POOR, ragged 
ALIEN, selling fruit day after day; at night he was found in the 
city library poring over scientific studies. 

For two years he continued this practice, until he attracted 
the attention of Mr. J. M. Greenwood, who questioned the man 
and found him to be remarkably thorough and a well-informed 
student. He ENCOURAGED the fruit vender in his work—gave 
him some personal ASSISTANCE and about three years ago se¬ 
cured for him a position as teacher of science in a prominent 
Western university. This poor alien had not been unmindful of 
his opportunities and is an illustration of the possibility of 
preparation, whether the PREPARATION be temporal or 
spiritual. 


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THE BOTTLES OE HEAVEN 


pottle 6 

1 Cor. 15. 58.—Always abounding in the work of the Lord. 
Heb. 6. 19.—An anchor of the soul—sure. 

Jer. 6. 16.—Ask for the old paths. 

Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience. 

Rom. 14. 7.—None of us liveth to himself. 

2 Cor. 4. 2.—Renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. 


Pottle 7 

Eph. 5. 16.—Buying up the opportunity. 

2 Kings 3. 11.—Elisha, which poured water on the hands of 
Elijah. 

2 Sam. 9. 12.—Mephibosheth eateth as one of the king’s sons. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


13 


Pottle 8 

In the stirring story of the Scotch covenanters a thrilling in¬ 
cident is told as to the execution of Captain John Paton. 

After Paton was apprehended he was taken to Edinburgh for 
trial and execution—on the way to Edinburgh he met an old com¬ 
rade in arms who had fought with him under Gustavus 
Adolphus. 

His comrade was surprised and grieved to see him bound. “I 
will write to the King and get a pardon for you,” he said. But 
Paton replied, “Ah, you won’t get one for me.” “Well,” answered 
his friend, “if I do not, I will never draw a sword for his 
majesty again.” 

So he made INTERCESSION for the covenanter captain and 
the pardon was granted. It arrived in Edinburgh in time, hut 
was held back by the lords of the congregation until Paton went 
to the scaffold. 

We brand this as a most heinous crime and we do well so to do, 
but what better is the man or woman who receives the DIVINE 
message of peace and pardon and refuses to pass on that message 
of PARDON to those who may be delivered thereby from the 
penalty of their sin? 

How should we make haste to accept for ourselves this pardon 
and to pass the pardon of another on to him with HASTE? 

Pottle 9 

John Bunyan, in his Pilgrim’s Progress, most perfectly pictures 
the inconstant soul in Pliable, who, with Obstinate, came out to 
persuade Pilgrim to give up his journey and turn back to the 
“City of Destruction,” but when Pilgrim refused to return and 
spake feelingly of the prospect, PLIABLE was minded to go 
along with him, and so turned away from Obstinate for the 
journey with Pilgrim. 

Having reached the “Slough of Despond” Pliable at once demon¬ 
strates his INCONSTANT spirit and with an effort gets himself 
out of the mire on the side next the City of Destruction and is 
not again seen by Pilgrim. 

A careful study of this parable and of life shows conclusively 
that the parable is a true picture of a multitude who, like those 
in Jesus’s time, were ENTHUSIASTIC for a season, and then 
went back and walked no more with him. Guard thy constancy 
as thou wouldst guard thy life. 

Pottle 10 

At Vendome, France, Napoleon erected a great MONUMENT to 
himself in the form of a statue. 

The monument was made from twelve hundred captured cannon 
and was supposed to speak forth of the valor and victory of this 
great leader. 

Though there be some who prefer such monuments, there are 
better monuments, that speak of greater victory and greater valor 
and of better manhood. 


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THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


pottle 8 

Luke 19. 5.—Zacchaeus, make haste and come down. 

Mark 16. 15.—Go ye into all the world. 

Ezek. 33. 6.—His blood will I require at the watchman’s hand. 


Pottle 9 

Ruth 1. 14.—And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law. 

Matt. 26. 72.—He denied with an oath—I do not know. 
Heb. 10. 39.—Who draw back unto perdition. 

John 6. 66.—Upon this, many of his disciples went back. 


Pottle 10 

3 John 1. 9.—Diotrephes, who loved the preeminence. 

Prov. 16. 32.—He that ruleth his own spirit is greater. 

1 Cor. 9. 25.—To obtain a corruptible crown. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—We are ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 
1 Cor. 15. 58.—Always abounding in the work of the Lord. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


15 


Pottle 11 

A New York pastor on a voyage across the Atlantic tells of his 
experience for sixty-five hours in one of the winter ocean 
CYCLONES of great violence. 

On Sunday morning in the gale’s fiercest moment he looked out 
across the waves and saw a little seabird quietly settle down upon 
the wave which threatened to overwhelm the ship. 

The bird folded its wings in perfect security, and as he watched 
it he received his sermon for the day, as he listened to the un¬ 
uttered question, “Are ye not of more value than many 
SPARROWS?” 

Fearful, storm-tossed travelers upon the ocean of life, can we 
not all believe that the eyes that neither slumber nor sleep are 
watching over us and underneath are the everlasting arms. 

Can we not all believe that he who made the bird to be SAFE 
upon the ocean billow can so fence our life as that we shall not 
be drawn under and engulfed in the trough of the waves? Let 
us put away our ANXIETY. 


Pottle 12 

A station agent at Bloomington, N. J., saw a man walking on 
the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. 

The man carried on his back a huge package, apparently con¬ 
taining household utensils, as well as clothing. 

He seemed tired, though he trudged sturdily on. Apparently 
he had not acquired the tramp skill of walking the ties, and his 
journey was telling on his physical power more than might have 
been the case with many another. 

As he passed the station the agent stopped him and ordered him 
off the track, threatening him with arrest. 

The man, who was a Hungarian, protested in his way and pro¬ 
duced a railroad ticket good from Jersey City to Scranton, Pa. 

The agent looked at him in amazement, and asked him why he 
was walking when he might ride. The Hungarian replied that he 
thought the ticket gave him only the privilege of walking over 
the road. 

His right was explained to him, and the tired man delightedly 
boarded the first train that stopped. 

There are not a few Christians who are as slow to UNDER¬ 
STAND and avail themselves of their PRIVILEGE. They walk 
and carry their BURDEN oftentimes, instead of giving up them¬ 
selves and their loads to the One who has made provision for 
both. 

They smile at this Hungarian immigrant, but scarcely is he 
out of sight and out of mind, before they are following his foot¬ 
steps, as tired and burdened as himself. 


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THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


Pottle 13 

2 Tim. 2. 15.—A workman that needeth not to be ashamed. 
Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—We are ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 


Pottle 14 

Phil. 3. 13.—Forgetting those things that are behind. 

2 Cor. 4. 2.—Renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. 
2 Cor. 7. 11.—Ye sorrowed after a godly sort. 

Psa. 95. 6.—Let us kneel before Jehovah, our Maker. 


THE BOTTLES OE HEAVEN 


19 


Pottle 15 

A Scotch minister tells this story of a poor Scotch woman who 
went to her pastor, in her extremity, and told him of her 
POVERTY. He kindly asked her if she had no friend or member 
of her family who could support or help her, and she answered 
that she had a son, a bonny lad, but he was in India, in the 
service of the government. 

“But does he not write to you?” “Oh, yes, he often writes me, 
and sends the kindest letters, and such pretty pictures in them. 
But I am too proud to tell him how poor I am, and, of course, I 
have not expected him to send me money.” 

“Would you mind showing me some of the pictures?” said the 
minister, and so Janet went to her Bible and brought out from 
between the leaves a great number of Bank of England notes laid 
away with the greatest care. 

“These,” she said, “are the pictures.” The minister smiled and 
said, “Janet, you are RICHER than I am. These are BANK 
notes. You have a FORTUNE in your Bible without knowing it.” 

There are many Janets, and they are not all in Scotland. 

Pottle 16 

From Singapore, Malaga, comes the description of a “praying- 
mantis.” Davies Moore, M.A., writes: “And things are not what 
they seem.” So gasped a doomed fly, as with lightning stroke two 
poniards pierced him through and through, he found himself 
lifted into the voracious mouth of a large mantis. 

Only for that fly the mantis would have lain unnoticed upon the 
leaf-strewn path. His MASK was perfection. Resting there on 
the wayside he was a flawless imitation of a brown, withered leaf 
of the length of a man’s forefinger; beyond protruded the 
blackened stem, nothing less than those poniard-pointed arms 
that transfixed the fly; the sharpest eye could have made of it 
nothing more than a piece of dead foliage-. 

These mantes are the best picture of the HYPOCRITE to be 
had in nature. 

A green mantis awaiting VICTIMS seems to assume the 
human attitude of deepest PIETY. The fatal weapons are bent 
out of sight and his arms are lifted toward heaven in the fashion 
of a supplicating saint. 


Pottle 17 

In the region of Saint Johns, New Brunswick, is a river which 
flows with tremendous force into the sea, but here the TIDE rises 
very high, and so OVERCOMES the. river as to send its salt 
waters of death as far as eighty-four miles inland. Because of 
this MIXING of waters, the fresh water cannot be utilized. 

What a parallel of such a picture is found in real life; how 
many lives are every now and again flooded and mixed with the 
rising tides of sin, and at such times are not usable. Let such an 
one remember that God can lift up the life or lessen the tide. 


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THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


Pottle 15 

Exod. 4. 2.—What is that in thy hand? 

Psa. 23. 5.—My cup runneth over. 

Psa. 65. 9.—The river of God is full of water. 

Jer. 31. 14.—My people shall he satisfied. 

1 Cor. 13. 12.—Now we see through a glass darkly. 
Eph. 3. 20.~Abundantly above that we ask. 


Pottle 16 

Gen. 4. 8.—And Cain talked with Abel, his brother. 
2 Cor. 11. 14.—Satan as an angel of light. 

Josh. 9. 4.—They did work wilily. 

Judg. 16. 21.—He did grind in the prison house. 
Matt. 24. 24.—Deceive if possible the elect. 

1 Cor. 10. 12.—Let him that standeth take heed. 


Pottle 17 

Rom. 6. 14.—Sin shall not have dominion. 

Jer. 17. 9.—The heart of man is desperately sick. 

Eph. 6. 12.—We fight against principalities and powers. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


21 


pottle 18 

A curious bit of history is related about that wonderful 
violinist, Paganini. One night, in Paris, where he was to play 
before a great crowd, as he was tuning his VIOLIN, he broke one 
of the strings—there was tremendous disappointment over the 
vast audience. 

PAGANINI paid no attention to it, but worked with his thumb 
again for a while until he broke a second string—then the people 
began to hiss him slightly. But he went on, and by and by broke 
a third string—this time they were uproarious against him. 

Quietly stepping to the front he said: “Ladies and gentlemen: 
One string and Paganini/'—and he began to bring such wonderful 
music out of that one string that the audience strained their 
necks that they might catch it all—he sat down with the whole 
house applauding because he had brought so much out of so 
LITTLE. 

“One string and Paganini”—a SURRENDERED soul and God 
Almighty—Are you willing, are you ready? Because, thank God, 
the very BEST is going to be made of your LIFE when you sur¬ 
render to the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Pottle 10 

On the English sea coast there is a certain fountain which lies 
within the tide line. Twice each day the TIDE spreads over it, 
and the pure, sweet waters are defiled and spoiled by the bitter 
waves. But the tide goes down and the FOUNTAIN washes itself 
clear from its defilement. 

This is the emblem of a LIFE that is in daily contact with the 
WORLD and its defilement—again and again it is touched by the 
evil one, but I bring you the cure today—let Christ lift thy life 
above the tide of SINS. 

One might become a Christian, that is, just simply be saved, and 
not have much of a POSITIVE INFLUENCE over the world 
about him, but by taking advantage of our privileges we shall 
have the greatest possible power for good over all with whom we 
come in contact. 

Keep thy life clean and thou wilt be for a fountain unto others. 

Pottle 20 

Among the legends of the TALMUD the story is told that when 
FALLEN man was driven out of the GARDEN of Eden to till the 
ground, he asked the angel who kept the gate: “What shall I 
bring back to God when I return?” The angel replied: “Bring 
Him back the FACE he gave you in the garden, and I will let 
you in.” 

This is but a legend, and yet it lifts up the one great condition 
and puts it as a frontlet before our eyes—“The face he gave you 
in the garden.” Do not seek to avoid this fact, for nothing of 
sin shall ever enter the GATES of pearl. 

Is thy face being TRANSFIGURED—take heed; do not pro¬ 
crastinate. 


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Pottle 18 

John 6. 11.—And Jesus took the loaves. 

Jer. 17. 9.—The heart of man is desperately sick. 

Col. 1. 18.—In all things he might have the preeminence. 
John 11. 39.—By this time he stinketh. 


Pottle 19 

1 Cor. 15. 10.—I am what I am. 

2 Cor. 6. 17.—Be ye separate, saith the Lord. 

John 17. 15.—That thou shouldst keep them from the evil. 
James 1. 27.—Unspotted from the world. 

1 Cor. 3. 15.—Saved, yet so as hy fire. 


Pottle 20 

Gen. 3. 23.—Forth from the garden of Eden. 

Psa. 17. 15.—I shall be satisfied with thy likeness. 
Isa. 1. 18.—Though your sins be as scarlet. 

Luke 15. 18.—Father, I have sinned. 

2 Cor. 3. 18.—Changed into the same image. 


THE BOTTLES OE HEAVEN 


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Pottle 21 

A gentleman standing by Niagara saw an EAGLE light upon a 
frozen lamb, encased in a floating piece of ice. The eagle stood 
upon that dead carcass and feasted upon it as it was DRIFTING 
on towards the Rapids. Every now and again the eagle would 
proudly lift his head into the air and look around him as if to 
say, I am drifting on toward danger—but I know what I am 
doing—before it is too late I will fly away and make good my 
escape. 

When he neared the Falls he stooped and spread his powerful 
wings—and leaped for his flight—but alas! alas! while he was 
feasting on that dead carcass his feet had frozen in the fleece. 
He leaped and shrieked and beat upon the ice with his wings 
until the ice-frozen lamb and the eagle went over the falls and 
down into the cold and darkness. This is a true picture of every 
PROCRASTINATING soul that is feasting upon the carcasses 
of sin. 

Many a young man intends, after a little more indulgence, to 
turn from his sins and be saved—but, alas! when he would turn 
and loosen himself he finds himself FETTERED by sinful 
HABITS, his affections have been poisoned by sin—his life has 
frozen to the decaying mass of rottenness upon which he had 
been feasting, and whether he be eagle-born or Vulture, over the 
falls he must go. 

Pottle 22 

Sermon THOUGHT for Gal. 5. 22, 23. 

LOVE—The LIFE—reach. 

JOY—the Life-refreshment. 

PEACE—the Life-rest. 

LONGSUFFERING—the Life-reprieve. 

GENTLENESS—the Life-refinement. 

GOODNESS—the Life-reenforcement. 

FAITH—the Life-resource. 

MEEKNESS—the Life-relinquishment. 

TEMPERANCE—the Life-restraint. 

Pottle 23 

The great naturalist AUDUBON thus describes his religious 
experience, and how communion strengthened and blessed him: 
“During my deepest TROUBLES I frequently would wrest myself 
from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of 
our noble forest—and many a time, at the sound of the Wood- 
thrushes’ melodies, have I fallen upon my knees and there 
PRAYED earnestly to our God. 

“This never failed to bring me the most valuable of 
THOUGHTS, and always COMFORT—and strange as it may 
seem to you, it was often necessary for me to exert my will and 
compel myself to return to my fellow-beings.” 

This experience of great Audubon is not uncommon. It is the 
STRANGE thing that happens when a soul waits on its God. 


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THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


pottle 21 

Num. 14. 25-40.—Tomorrow turn you and get you into the wil¬ 
derness. 

Judg. 16. 21.—He did grind in the prison-house. 

2 Cor. 6. 2.—Today is the day of salvation. 

Acts 24. 25.—Felix trembled and said, “Go thy way for this 
time.” 


pottle 22 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the Spirit is. 

John 10. 10.—That they might have it abundantly. 
Psa. 23. 5.—My cup runneth over. 

Tit. 3. 6.—Which he shed on us abundantly. 


Pottle 23 

Isa. 40. 31.—They that wait upon the Lord, pass on their 
strength. 

Matt. 11. 28.—I will give you rest. 

Matt. 6. 6.—And when thou hast shut the door. 

Psa. 19. 1.—The heavens declare the glory of God. 

Psa. 37. 5.—Roll thy way upon Jehovah. 

Psa. 139. 17.—How precious are thy thoughts unto me. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


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pottle 24 

The color of SCARLET is used for SIN, not to denote its 
heinousness, but to emphasize it as indelible. 

You may immerse a cloth in any color except scarlet or crimson 
and processes are known by which the color can be afterwards 
separated from the cloth, but once let the crimson or scarlet 
touch the cloth and there is no process known to the human 
mind by which it can be taken out. Rub the fabric into ten 
thousand fragments, in each fragment is the scarlet. 

So in this figure is sin pictured indelible—indelible to man; no 
human mind knows the process by which sin is to be eliminated 
from the life fabric. We are without hope except God had come 
to the RESCUE. 

But God knows all the secrets of the coloring, even of scarlet— 
cloth and could easily full it to its original whiteness, white as 
the glistering raiment of Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration. 

Thou believest that—dost thou believe that God knows all the 
secrets of a soul and its sin—yea, of thy soul and its sin, and 
can separate the INDELIBLE stain and cancel it from thy life; 
fulled as no fuller on earth could whiten it? 

Come, REASON—can he not do it? Come, reason, be rea¬ 
sonable, be wise, let him do what thou canst never do. 

Christ has purchased the right to apply this CLEANSING 
process. 


Pottle 25 

The landscape, brown and sere beneath the sun, 

Needs but the cloud to lift it into life; 

The dews may damp the leaves of tree and flower, 

But it requires the clouds-distilled shower 
To bring rich verdure to the lifeless LIFE. 

Ah, how like this, the landscape of a life: 

Dews of trial fall like incense, rich and sweet; 

But bearing little in the crystal tray— 

Like nymphs of night, dews lift at break of day, 

And transient impress leave, like lips that meet. 

But clouds of TRIALS, bearing burdens rare. 

Leave in the soul, a moisture settled deep: 

Life kindles by the magic law of God, 

And where before the thirsty camel trod, 

There richest beauties to life’s landscape leap. 

Then read thou in each CLOUD that comes to thee 
The words of Paul, in letters large and clear: 

So shall those clouds thy soul with blessing feed, 

And with a constant trust as thou dost read: 

All things together work for GOOD. FRET not, nor FEAR. 


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Pottle 24 

Isa. 1. 18.—Although your sin is as scarlet. 

Mark 9. 3.—As no fuller on earth can whiten. 

Gen. 7. 1.—Come thou into the ark. 

Exod. 30. 12.—Every man a ransom for his soul—rich and poor. 
Jude 1. 24.—Faultless before the throne. 


pottle 25 

Rom. 8. 28.—All things work together for good. 
Gen. 42. 36.—All these things are against me. 
Psa. 119. 67.—Before I was afflicted I went astray. 
Eph. 5. 20.—Giving thanks always for all things. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


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Pottle 26 

The American Tract Society has published the following in¬ 
cident as part of the history of Gettysburg: 

A young colonel had been seriously WOUNDED in the battle 
and taken to the hospital. The father was sent for and informed 
that the son could not live more than four days. He was re¬ 
quested to break the news to his boy. 

The young colonel betrayed great agitation when told, and 
begged his father to help him get ready for eternity. 

“I suppose you feel guilty,” said the father. 

“Yes, I have been a wicked young man. You know how it is in 
the army.” 

“You want to be forgiven, don’t you?” 

“Oh, yes! Can I be, father?” 

“Certainly.” 

“Can I KNOW it before I die?” 

“Certainly you can.” 

‘Well, now, father, make it so PLAIN that I can get hold of it.” 

“Do you remember while you were at school, you came home 
one day, and I had occasion to rebuke you—you became angry, 
and abused me with hard language?” 

“Yes, father. _ I was thinking it all over a few days ago, as I 
thought of your coming to see me, and I wanted to ask you once 
more to forgive me.” 

“Do you remember how, after the anger had subsided, you 
came in and threw your arms around my neck, and said, ‘Dear 
father, I am sorry I abused you so. It was not your son that did 
it. I was very angry. Won’t you forgive me?’ ” 

“Yes, I remember it.” 

“Do you remember what I said?” 

“You said, ‘Very well. I forgive you with all my heart,’ and 
kissed me.” 

“Did you believe me?” 

“Certain. I never doubted your word.” 

“Did you then feel happy again?” 

“Yes, perfectly. I shall never forget how it relieved me.” 

“Well, now, this is just the way to come to Jesus. Tell him, ‘I 
am SORItY,’ just as you told me, and quicker than a FATHER’S 
love FORGAVE you, he will forgive. Then you must take him 
at his word, just as you did me.” 

“Why, father, is this the way to become a Christian?” 

“I don’t know of any other way.” 

“I believe I can get hold of that. I am so glad you have come 
to tell me how.” He turned his head upon his pillow for rest. 

I soon felt the nervous hand on my head and heard these 
words: “Father, I am perfectly happy now. Jesus has FOR¬ 
GIVEN me. I know he has, for he says so, and I take his word 
for it, just as I did yours.” 

It is a recommendation to the PEACE of God that this young 
colonel recovered to live a Christian life. 


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Pottle 26 

Heb. 4. 2.—Not mixed with faith. 

Psa. 119. 67.—Before I was afflicted I went astray. 

Luke 15. 18.—Father, I have sinned. 

Rom. 5. 1.—Justified by faith, we have peace. 

Eccl. 12. 1.—Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. 
2 Tim. 1.12.—He is able to keep my deposit. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


29 


Pottle 27 

The Spirit of God seemed to be working among the men in a 
large factory. Among them the foreman was brought under deep 
conviction, but he was not able to grasp the truth. 

At last his master, an earnest Christian man, wrote him a note, 
asking him to come to the office. He obeyed the summons, but 
upon entering the room was met with the question, “Do you wish 
to see me, James?” 

Greatly surprised, the foreman held up the note, saying, “The 
letter! You sent for me, sir.” 

“Oh,” said his master, “You believed that I wanted to see you, 
so when I sent you the message you came at once?” “Certainly, 
sir,” answered the man. 

“Well, my man, here is another letter, sending for you, by one 
equally in earnest,” said his master, holding up a slip of paper 
with some writing on it. 

The foreman took the paper and read slowly: “COME-unto-me- 
all-ye-that-labor-and-are-heavy-laden-and-I-will-give-you-REST.” 

The words came home to him with new meaning—his lips 
quivered, the tears ran down his cheeks. He stood there, over¬ 
come for a few moments, then he said, brokenly, “Am I just to 
BELIEVE that in the same way I believed your letter?” 

“Just in the same way,” replied the master, “for, ‘if we receive 
the witness of men, the witness of God is greater.’ ” 


Pottle 28 

Silence is not always golden. It is sometimes NEGLIGENCE. 
The following story is told of a case lost in court by the 
SILENCE of an attorney: 

“The distinguished Samuel Hoar, father of the late Senator 
Hoar, once said to a jury that the case was so perfectly plain 
that he would not insult their intelligence by arguing it. 

“The jury returned in a few minutes with a verdict against 
him, and when the astonished lawyer asked the foreman how the 
jury could have returned such a verdict, he received this answer: 

“ ‘The fact is, squire, we all agreed that if anything could be 
said for a case Squire Hoar could say it, and aS you didn’t say 
anything we concluded to render a VERDICT against you.* 

“How often effective TESTIMONY for Christ is lost because 
the one who should give it thinks there is no NEED of it, while 
the one who would hear it, because of silence, concludes that the 
matter is not accounted important enough to speak of.” 


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Pottle 27 

Heb. 4. 2.—Not mixed with faith. 

Eph. 2. 8—Faith, it is the gift of God. 

Matt. 11. 28.—Come and I will give you rest. 

John 3. 16.—Whosoever believeth might have everlasting life. 


Pottle 28 

Psa. 121. 1.—I will lift up mine eyes. 

Ezek. 33. 6.—His blood at the watchman’s hands. 

Matt. 26. 72.—He denied with an oath, I know not. 
Mark 16. 15.—Preach to every creature. 

Luke 9. 26.—Of Him shall the Son of Man he ashamed. 
Acts 20. 20.—From house to house. 

Prov. 25. 11.—A word fitly spoken is apples of gold. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


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Pottle 29 

John Robertson, the great Scotch minister, tells us of his expe¬ 
rience while a boy, which illustrates the danger of yielding to 
temptation. He says: “I remember in my school days a loch that 
fed a mill in the valley. The loch was kept back by a sluice, and 
that sluice was just a torment to the young Scotch boys on their 
way home from school, because there was a board that threatened 
if they touched the sluice they would be prosecuted. That was 
enough to make the fingers of those school boys itch to touch the 
sluice. 

“One day two of us, not seeing anyone, touched it—how easily 
the screw mounted to the top, and there it stuck. We could not 
get it down again. 

“That is just like SIN. We got the sluice up and the water 
began to roll through the opening, and we were UNABLE to close 
it. Down the road we showed our heels, hoping to cross to our 
homes before the water would reach the place of crossing. The 
road ran alongside of the burn, and the water rushed down the 
stream, keeping pace with us, and we could not get away from it.” 

Pottle 30 

One of the friends of Dr. John Balcom Shaw loves to tell of his 
visit to the South Sea Islands. There he met a CANNIBAL chief 
who, like all true converts, was AFLAME with the love of Jesus. 

Ho had become a missionary to his fellows. He took his little 
boat out among the islands, preaching Christ to his former fellow- 
cannibals. After a while he became so successful that he felt the 
need of a better boat, and the American missionary sold him his 
boat for a nominal sum. 

In a little while the old feeling began to come back. After six 
months he went back to the missionary and said: “Here is your 
boat. Take it off my hands.” The missionary said, “Why, can’t 
you afford to keep it?” and the converted cannibal said: “That 
isn’t it; I can well afford to keep the boat, but if I keep that boat 
another month I shall go back to my OLD life. As I sail out and 
in among my fellow-cannibals the old feeling comes back, and I 
can’t keep your boat and WIN the cannibals for Christ. Take the 
boat off my hands.” 

This story points its own lesson. 

Pottle 31 

A PRISON cell has often been the place of LIGHT and 
Spiritual emancipation. 

Coligny, the great constable of France, long a bulwark of 
French Protestantism, was taken prisoner when Saint Quentin 
was captured by the Spaniards, and was carried to Antwerp. 
Motley, the historian, tells us that he lay for many weeks sick 
with a fever, and upon his recovery, having no better pastime, he 
fell to reading the SCRIPTURES, and the result was his con¬ 
version to Christ. 


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THE BOTTLES OP HEAVEN 


pottle 29 

Nura. 32. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you out. 

Gen. 19. 20.—Is it not a little one? 

Heb. 3. 13.—The deceitfulness of sin. 

Prov. 4. 15.—Avoid it—pass not by it—turn from it. 


Pottle 30 

1 John 2. 16.—The pride of life not of the Father. 

1 Cor. 10. 12.—Let him that standeth take heed. 

1 Cor. 11. 28.—Let a man examine himself. 

Mark 10. 22.—Went away grieved, for he had great possessions. 
Song of Solomon 1-6.—Mine own vineyard have I not kept. 


Pottle 31 

Acts 17. 12.—Examining the scriptures, therefore many believe. 
Psa. 119. 130.—The entrance of thy word giveth light. 

Psa. 119. 67.—Before I was afflicted, I went astray. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and profitable. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


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Pottle 32 

When the king and queen of Great Britain visited the Isle of 
Man, Hall Caine, the novelist, was asked to ride with them, in 
order to point out the objects of interest. 

According to report, he appeared to think that the only in¬ 
teresting people of the island were the characters in his novels, 
and regaled the king and queen with something like this: “There 
is the exact spot at which Glory Quayle is first introduced to the 
reader.” Thus the novelist continued for two hours. The king 
and queen were dreadfully plagued and King Edward asked to 
be driven back to town. They had heard of nothing except the 
characters in Caine’s novels. 

How often, when the King of kings INVITES us to go with 
him for companionship, we insist on his seeing things from our 
personal point of view. We wish to talk to God and not give him 
a chance to speak to us. 


pottle 33 

In the International Sunday School course the Reform Bureau, 
Washington, D. C., described a curious method of capturing 
condors: 

“A native of Peru has slain an animal for food. He leaves upon 
the skin some pieces of the raw flesh, and goes with it far up the 
mountain side, upon the rugged Andes. He finds a crevice in 
the rock, lies down in it and covers himself with the skin, with 
the raw side exposed to the heavens. The giant condor, seated 
on the cliff or soaring far above the clouds, scents the flesh. He 
drops upon the pelt and pulls the flesh off with his beak. 

“But the native underneath seizes him by the feet and wraps 
the skin around him, and sells him to the nearest port to decorate 
some city park, thousands of miles away.” 

So many a GENIUS, STRONG for lofty flight, is caught and - 
carried CAPTIVE through his APPETITES. 

Pottle 34 

The manager of the Central telephone exchange of Virginia, 
Illinois, said one day to the Rev. Burchit, a pastor of the city: 
“Come up this evening and bring your HARP and I will give 
you a great audience.” 

That night when the wires were not busy the manager con¬ 
nected our city with all the principal cities of the state. I 
stepped into the closet near the receiver of the long-distance 
'phone and began to play and sing. 

When I had ceased I heard the clapping of hands from Chicago, 
Springfield, Bloomington, Peoria, and many other places, and to 
this day I do not know how many cities listened to the Christian 
song I sang that night. If we sing or speak in a telephone ex¬ 
change, or in some less public place, we shall never know how 
many hear us and are helped, or how many hear us and are 
HINDERED. It becomes us to be careful when we use our 
TONGUES for speech or song. 


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THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


pottle 29 

Nura. 32. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you out. 

Gen. 19. 20.—Is it not a little one? 

Heb. 3. 13.—The deceitfulness of sin. 

Prov. 4. 15.—Avoid it—pass not by it—turn from it. 


Pottle 30 

1 John 2. 16.—The pride of life not of the Father. 

1 Cor. 10. 12.—Let him that standeth take heed. 

1 Cor. 11. 28.—Let a man examine himself. 

Mark 10. 22.—Went away grieved, for he had great possessions. 
Song of Solomon 1-6.—Mine own vineyard have I not kept. 


Pottle 31 

Acts 17. 12.—Examining the scriptures, therefore many believe. 
Psa. 119. 130.—The entrance of thy word giveth light. 

Psa. 119. 67.—Before I was afflicted, I went astray. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and profitable. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


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bottle 32 

When the king and queen of Great Britain visited the Isle of 
Man, Hall Caine, the novelist, was asked to ride with them, in 
order to point out the objects of interest. 

According to report, he appeared to think that the only in¬ 
teresting people of the island were the characters in his novels, 
and regaled the king and queen with something like this: “There 
is the exact spot at which Glory Quayle is first introduced to the 
reader.” Thus the novelist continued for two hours. The king 
and queen were dreadfully plagued and King Edward asked to 
be driven back to town. They had heard of nothing except the 
characters in Caine’s novels. 

How often, when the King of kings INVITES us to go with 
him for companionship, we insist on his seeing things from our 
personal point of view. We wish to talk to God and not give him 
a chance to speak to us. 


Pottle 33 

In the International Sunday School course the Reform Bureau, 
Washington, D. C., described a curious method of capturing 
condors: 

“A native of Peru has slain an animal for food. He leaves upon 
the skin some pieces of the raw flesh, and goes with it far up the 
mountain side, upon the rugged Andes. He finds a crevice in 
the rock, Ijes down in it and covers himself with the skin, with 
the raw side exposed to the heavens. The giant condor, seated 
on the cliff or soaring far above the clouds, scents the flesh. He 
drops upon the pelt and pulls the flesh off with his beak. 

“But the native underneath seizes him by the feet and wraps 
the skin around him, and sells him to the nearest port to decorate 
some city park, thousands of miles away.” 

So many a GENIUS, STRONG for lofty flight, is caught and - 
carried CAPTIVE through his APPETITES. 

Pottle 34 

The manager of the Central telephone exchange of Virginia, 
Illinois, said one day to the Rev. Burchit, a pastor of the city: 
“Come up this evening and bring your HARP and I will give 
you a great audience.” 

That night when the wires were not busy the manager con¬ 
nected our city with all the principal cities of the state. I 
stepped into the closet near the receiver of the long-distance 
'phone and began to play and sing. 

When I had ceased I heard the clapping of hands from Chicago, 
Springfield, Bloomington, Peoria, and many other places, and to 
this day I do not know how many cities listened to the Christian 
song I sang that night. If we sing or speak in a telephone ex¬ 
change, or in some less public place, we shall never know how 
many hear us and are helped, or how many hear us and are 
HINDERED. It becomes us to be careful when we use our 
TONGUES for speech or song. 


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THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


Pottle 32 

Luke 10. 37.—Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feast. 

Luke 18. 11.—The Pharisee stood and prayed with himself. 
3 John 1. 9.—Diotrephes, who loveth the preeminence. 


pottle 33 

Prov. 23. 2 .—A man given to appetite. 

Josh. 9. 4.—They did work wilily. 

Matt. 24. 24.—Deceive, if possible, the elect. 

2 Thes. 2. 10.—With all deceivableness. 

Gen. 4. 8.—And Cain talked with Abel, his brother. 
Psa. 55. 21.—But his heart was war. 


Pottle 34 

Matt. 20. 28.—To minister and to give his life. 

2 Cor. 4. 18.—The things that are seen are temporal. 
Eph. 5. 16.—Buying up the opportunity. 

Acts 8. 4.—Everywhere preaching the w’ord. 


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Pottle 35 

Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman tells of an incident in the life of Presi¬ 
dent Lincoln that suggests a WEAKNESS in many a life and an 
efficient strength in the life of the few. He says Mrs. Pomeroy 
was counted a member of President Lincoln’s household. One 
day when he had grown weary with the affairs of state, he asked 
her to accompany him to the theater and occupy the president’s 
box at the Ford Theater that night. Mrs. Pomeroy courteously 
declined. 

He gave her a subsequent invitation, and it was not accepted. 
Finally, with some degree of irritation, he said: “Mrs. Pomeroy, 
it is counted an HONOR to sit in the president’s box. I should 
like to ask you why you have refused.” Hesitating a moment, as 
if she feared to hurt the feelings of the president, she said: 
“Mr. President, I am a Christian, and when I became such I 
PROMISED my Lord that I would go no place where I could not 
take him with me, or ask his blessing. I could hardly do this at 
the THEATER, and for that reason I do not go.” It is said that 
Abraham Lincoln never again asked her to accompany him to 
such a place, but it is known that again and again when they 
were driving together on some mission of MERCY in the various 
hospitals, he would say to his coachman, “Drive a little slower.” 
And then he would say to Mrs. Pomeroy, “Tell me more of this 
Christ whom you SERVE.” 

Such a life always has POWER, and this is simply being 
CONSISTENT, and not in any sense FANATICAL. 

Pottle 36 

Scales are now made of such nice adjustment that they will 
weigh the smallest hair plucked from the eyebrow. 

They are triumphs of mechanism and are enclosed in glass 
cases, as the slightest breath of air would impair their record. 
The glass case has a sliding DOOR and as soon as the weight is 
placed in the BALANCE the door slides down. 

A signature containing nine letters has been WEIGHED and 
proved to be exactly two milligrammes, or one-fifteen-thousand- 
five hundredth part of an ounce troy. 

The Balances of God are no less exact than these, and the true 
weight of the soul is had in the SECRET place. 

Pottle 37 

An English journal thus comments on the injurious effects of 
anger: ANGER serves the unhappy mortal who indulges it 

much the same as INTOXICANTS do the inebriate. It grows 
into a disease which has various and terrible results. Sir 
Richard Quain once said: “He is a man very rich indeed in 
physical power who can afford to be angry. The heart and brain 
are specially affected by these fits of passion and there is 
DANGER of the life. Anger causes partial paralysis of the small 
blood vessels, and the heart’s action becomes intermittent. 

There may be more of anger back of the paralytie stroke than 

it gets credit for. 


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pottle 35 

2 Cor. 6. 17.—Be ye separate, saith the Lord. 

1 Cor. 15. 10.—I am what I am. 

Acts 26. 22.—Witnessing both to small and great. 
Matt. 26. 72.—He denied with an oath, I do not know. 
Neh. 13. 24.—Half in the speech of Ashdod. 


Pottle 36 

Isa. 40. 15.—The small dust of the balances. 

Dan. 5. 27.—Weighed in the balances and found wanting. 
Matt. 6. 6.—When thou hast shut the door. 

Jude 1. 24.—Faultless before the presence of his glory. 


Pottle 37 

1 Thes. 4. 11.—Study to be quiet. 

Prov. 16. 32.—He that ruleth his own spirit is greater. 
Rom. 12. 19.—Avenge not yourselves. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the Spirit is gentleness. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


37 


Pottle 38 

Prisoner number 34407, in the Ohio Penitentiary, in the year 
1905, was an illustration of what may be done by the chastening 
of the law. It was the second term of “H. Z.” in that penal in¬ 
stitution, and back of these was a Reform School term. 

When visited in Cambridge by his mother’s pastor in the jail 
he was offered a New Testament if only he would read it, but in 
his bitter and unbroken spirit he said he would not. 

A second time the pastor visited him and left with him Hadley’s 
“Down in Water Street.” 

The third time the pastor called at the jail, just before the 
removal to Columbus, and after hesitancy the prisoner consented 
to take the vest-pocket Testament and promised to read it. 

The two years passed—such part as the law appoints for well- 
behaved prisoners—and PRISONER No. 34407 returned to his 
home. 

He had in the interim during his incarceration been studying 
the Testament and reading a Bible he had at the institution and had 
PROFESSED to be a Christian. Some time after coming home 
he was taken ill and soon died. Before the funeral service the 
pastor was given the Bible he had brought home, with a funeral 
scripture verse selected and marked while in his prison garb to 
be used in case of his death. The text selected was Isa. 60. 20. 


Pottle 39 

In his early days Tennyson contemplated Byron’s works with 
'devouring intensity, and his own early productions had a 
Byronic hue. 

In a recent exhibition at Coniston some of the works of John 
Ruskin were arranged in the order of production, and above them 
were placed examples of the Masters who INFLUENCED him. 
It was quite easy to look from the pupil to the master and find 
resemblances. We appropriate what we contemplate. We become 
like those with whom we ASSOCIATE. 


Pottle 40 

The Rev. Craig, of Dublin, was called to see a dying man in 
Adelaide Hospital, Dublin. He found an agnostic and infidel. It 
seemed VAIN to attempt to minister any help or consolation. 

Dr. Craig asked him how he felt spiritually, and he said: “I 
feel as though I were sinking in a black quagmire of utter dark¬ 
ness and DESPAIR. He finally consented to read a copy of the 
gospel according to John. When Dr. Craig called again the man 
was dying but rejoicing. 

He had read in the gospel till he came to chapter fourteen. 
Then he remembered his FATHER’S dying words: “My son, my 
heart and my flesh are failing, but I am resting peacefully upon 
these words,” and he repeated those three verses; he who had 
been agnostic and infidel passed away, RESTING on those same 
words. 


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Acts 17. 12.—Examining the scriptures many therefore believe. 
Psa. 119. 130.—The entrance of thy word giveth light. 

Psa. 119. 67.—Before I was afflicted I went astray. 

Luke 15. 18.—Father, I have sinned. 

Isa. 60. 20.—The days of thy mourning shall be ended. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and is profitable. 


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Heb. 12. 2.—Laying aside every weight and sin, by looking. 

2 Cor. 3. 18.—Changed into the same image. 

1 Cor. 15. 33.—Evil associations corrupt morals. 

Prov. 27. 17.—As iron sharpeneth iron, so a man the face of his* 
friend. 

Neh. 13. 24.—Half in the speech of Ashdod. 

Judg. 2. 3.—As thorns in your side. 


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John 14. 1.—I go to prepare a place for you. 

2 Chron. 15. 3.—A long time without, but when they turned. 
Psa. 119. 130.—The entrance of thy word giveth light. 

Isa. 21. 12.—And also the night. 

Rom. 5. 1.—Justified by faith, we have peace. 


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Pottle 41 

Professor Lewis Swift, the astronomer, was at one time in 
charge of the Warner Observatory, of Rochester. There was in 
Rochester a sculptor of the name of Mundy, who was all but 
blind. Dr. Swift determined to make him see a star once more. 
It was winter and magnificent Sirius, brightest of all the fixed 
stars, was shining in the south. 

Swift lead Mundy into a dark alley, set up the instrument, 
trained it on Sirius and bade the sculptor look. He looked, but 
reported that he could not see a thing. Observing a street lamp 
burning at the corner of the alley the astronomer suspected that 
even its feeble light was blurring what was left of the SIGHT 
of his friend. He ran and turned it out to perfect the darkness. 
Making his way back he again adjusted his instrument most 
carefully, fixed the focus and bade Mundy look again. 

It was a thrilling moment, for then that EYE that for so long 
had seen little of earth and none of heaven, received the 
flood of light that poured down from a far-away world, and the 
sculptor exclaimed in rapture, “I see it; I see it!” 

May we not believe that God purposely puts us in the darkness 
sometimes that we may see his LIGHTS up yonder? 

When one light after another has been withdrawn from among 
our earthly comforts, sometimes the last one that is left must 
be turned out in order that in the darkness our VISION may be 
reawakened and we may get most helpful sights of the far-away 
spirit world. 

How often has the eye, BLIND to the beauties of earth and 
the glories of heaven, been brought to see these things by this 
turning out of earthly lights! 


pottle 42 


The great Rothschilds’ fortune had its broad foundation laid 
by the genius of that member of the family who, mounted on a 
fleet horse, kept so close to Wellington at the battle of Waterloo 
that the Iron Duke muttered a threat to hang “the skulking Jew” 
if he did not keep his distance. Rothschild waited only to see 
the beginning of Wellington’s VICTORY and Napoleon’s rout; 
then spurred his steed to Brussels; there he took a carriage to 


Ostend. 

A wild storm was raging, but he paid the boatman $500 to ferry 
him to Dover, and he was in London eight hours before the 
official news of the great victory. In that eight hours he made 
millions of dollars and by the use of that OPPORTUNITY laid 
the foundation for the greatest fortune the world has ever 
known. Great results often depend on the seizing of an oppor¬ 
tunity the instant it is presented. 

The word opportunity means “opposite a port,” and the sailor 
will SOON DRIFT by the channel if he does not enter it at the 
right moment. Many a man misses SALVATION that way. 

We may condemn the GREED and selfish AMBITION of this 
man, but we must commend, and we will do well to follow, his 
example in unselfish EFFORT, for he made his port. 


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Pottle 41 

1 Cor. 13. 12.—Now we see through a glass darkly. 
1 Cor. 2. 14.—They are spiritually discerned. 

Rev. 22. 4.—They shall see his face. 

Matt. 11. 5.—The blind receive their sight. 


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Eph. 5. 16.—Buying up the opportunity. 

Mark 8. 36.—What profit if a man gain and lose. 

2 Cor. 6. 2.—Today the day of salvation. 

Matt. 11. 12.—The enthusiastic take it by enthusiasm, 
Heb. 2. 1.—Earnest heed lest we drift by them. 


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Louis Albert Banks, D.D., tells in one of his sermons about 
traveling with an old Jewish merchant who had commenced his 
career in a western city fifty years ago, and who had been ac¬ 
cumulating MONEY all these years, until he is now a millionaire 
and as hot in the chase for the DOLLAR as in his younger years. 

His whole thought and being seemed absorbed in the matter of 
getting money. 

He said his wife was very different from himself. She was 
fond of music and books and art. 

Said the merchant, “She came to me the other day with a book 
on ASTRONOMY in her hand and said: ‘Jacob, there is going to 
be a new STAR. Let me read to you about it.” 

“But,” said the old man, “I answered her by lifting both hands 
and exclaiming, ‘Don’t bother me, Rebecca! I care more about 
the price of OVERALLS than about all the STARS in the sky.’ ” 

How truly warped and dreadful such a life! The HEAVENS 
shut out and this money craze given full sway in a man’s life. 

bottle 44 

An English clergyman, kneeling beside a WEALTHY dying 
man, asked him to take his hand as he prayed. 

The man declined to take the proffered HAND, putting his 
close-shut hand under the covers of the bed. 

After the man had died and they turned down the coverlet, the 
rigid hands were found holding the safe key in their death grip. 

AVARICE will blind a man and beggar his soul so that he will 
prefer the grasp of a safe key even to the hand of Christ. 

Pottle 45 

A story is told of Benjamin Parsons, in his day an eminent 
preacher of the Gospel. 

He was lying on his death bed, and a friend who was visiting 
him, asked: “Well, how is it with you?” 

“I am resting sweetly,” was the reply, “on three pillows—in¬ 
finite POWER, infinite LOVE, infinite GRACE.” 

This is the possible right of every soul of man in all its 
living as well as in the death HOUR. 

Pottle 46 

Paganini, the great violinist, had to play at a celebrated con¬ 
cert, and great things were expected of him. Just before the 
time to play somebody stole his cremona, his favorite violin, 
which, by long practice, had become endeared to him and ren¬ 
dered the work he had to do very much easier. He was much 
chagrined at the theft, as a very inferior instrument had been 
left in its place. He did not discover the theft until he came 
before his audience. He secretly gnashed his teeth with determin¬ 
ation and repressed his anger. Shaking his fiddle-stick at the 
audience, he said: “Now, ladies and gentlemen, you shall see that 
the MUSIC is not in my FIDDLE, but the music is in me.” 


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Pottle 43 

Psa. 19. 1.—The heavens declare the glory of God. 

Exod. 4. 2.—What is that in thy hand? 

Matt. 26. 15.—For thirty pieces of silver. 

Mark 8. 36.—What profit if a man gain and lose? 

Luke 12. 34.—Where your treasure is, there your heart also. 


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1 Tim. 6. 9.—They that will be rich fall into a snare. 

Mark 10. 22.—He went away grieved—he had great possessions. 
Exod. 20. 17.—Thou shalt not covet. 

Luke 12. 20.—Whose shall these things be? 

Luke 12. 34.—Where your treasure is, there your heart. 


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Gal. 5. 22.—Fruit of the spirit is peace. 

Matt. 11. 28.—Ye shall find rest unto your souls. 
Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the Spirit is faith. 

Rev. 19. 6.—The Lord God omnipotent, reigneth. 

2 Cor. 9. 8.—God is able to make all grace abound, 


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Col. 1. 27.—Christ in you the hope of glory. 

Gal. 2. 20.—Christ liveth in me. 

Heb. 6. 1.—Let us press on unto the full growth. 


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pottle 47 

The King of Prussia, visiting in one of his villages, was wel¬ 
comed by the school children. When it came his turn to speak 
he thanked them for their welcome, and taking an orange, he 
asked, “To what kingdom does this belong?” “To the vegetable 
kingdom, sire,” said a little girl. Holding up a gold coin, he 
asked, “To what kingdom does this belong?” “To the mineral 
kingdom,” was the response. 

“To what kingdom do I belong, then?” asked the king. The 
child hesitated. She did not like to say “To the animal kingdom,” 
lest their Royal visitor might be offended. 

Then there flashed into her mind the thought: “God made MAN 
in his own IMAGE,” and looking up she said: “To God’s KING¬ 
DOM, sire.” 

The king was deeply touched. A tear stood in his eye. Laying 
his hand upon the child’s head, he said, “God grant that I may 
be accounted WORTHY of that kingdom.” 

Pottle 48 

An artist was once asked to paint a picture of a DYING 
churqh. 

Instead of putting on the canvas a small, feeble, poor congrega¬ 
tion in an old building, he painted a stately, modern edifice; 
through the open portals of which could be seen a richly carved 
pulpit, a magnificent organ, beautiful stained-glass windows, with 
frescoings and perfect seating. 

Just- within the entrance and guarded on either side by a 
“Pillar” of the church in spotless apparel, he painted a contribu¬ 
tion plate of goodly workmanship for the OFFERINGS of 
FASHIONABLE WORSHIPERS. 

And right above the plate, suspended from a nail in the wall, 
there hung a small box bearing the inscription, “Collection for 
Foreign Missions,” and over the slot through which the con¬ 
tributions should have gone he painted a huge cobweb. 

Pottle 40 

In Death Valley, where the Pacific Coast Borax Company has 
made huge lakes for the crystallization of borates from the waters 
of the surrounding marsh, here the Piute Indians catch great 
quantities of ducks in a very interesting manner. 

On cold nights the ducks flying over alight in these vats, which 
look like any other ponds. The borax in the water crystallizes 
quickly and if the ducks are at all quiet they find themselves 
WEIGHED down with CRYSTALS. They can neither dive nor 
swim, nor fly, and fall an easy PREY to the hungry Piutes. 
Often a hunter will carry away all the ducks he can possibly 
stagger under which were thus held PRISONERS by the 
crystals which had fastened on them. These ducks might be 
excused of folly, but men who can be warned and are not more 
wise are criminal to weigh down their lives with gold or ground, 
and thus be taken captive. 


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Pottle 47 

Gen. 1. 27.—In the image of God created he him. 
Psa. 8. 4.—What is man? 

Matt. 6. 9.—Our Father who art in heaven. 

Phil. 3. 20.—Our citizenship is in heaven. 


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Mark 16. 15.—Go ye, preach to every creature. 
Ezek. 33. 6.—His blood at the watchman’s hands. 
Rom. 15. 28.—I will go by you into Spain. 

Mai. 3. 10.—Bring ye all the tithes. 

Psa. 55. 21.—But his heart was war. 

Gen. 4. 9.—Am I my brother’s keeper? 


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1 Tim. 6. 9.—They that would be rich. 

Heb. 12. 2.—Every weight and sin (by) looking. 
Heb. 3. 13.—The deceitfulness of sin. 

Phil. 1. 9.—A prisoner of Christ Jesus. 

Isa. 5. 13.—Into captivity because no knowledge. 


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Pottle 50 

DOUBT strolled amid the flowers, at play, 

While fleetly sped the hours away. 

He said, “I wish they all were mine— 

The bright hued flowers, the purpling vine, 

The stately trees in foliage bright, 

The river flashing in the light. 

I would be rich, but is it true 

This may be mine that meets my view?” 

FAITH planted seed along his way, 

Both late and early toiled each day— 

No doubting castles builded he 
From idle thoughts and doubting free. 

Swift to respond to truth’s clear call 
To her fair claim he gave his all— 

Soon budding vines, and trees, and flowers, 

And sparkling streams, and sunny bowers, 

He called with honest pride his own— 

The HARVEST pure of faith-seed sown. 

Beside the tranquil summer sea 
Doubt dreaming, loitered languidly. 

“If I could build a ship,” he sighed, 

“Across the ocean rolling wide, 

To far-off countries I would go, 

Where mountains rear their heads of snow, 

Where strange, sweet flowers the glad year through 
Bloom under skies of cloudless blue. 

And happy birds sing sweet and clear 
To thrill the heart and charm the ear.” 

Beside the tranquil summer sea 
Faith toiled and struggled manfully, 

Though great the TOIL and slow the GAIN, 

His LABOR was not all in VAIN. 

His ship built in the harbor lay, 

He sailed the deep for many a day— 

In country old, and region new, 

Fair scenes of beauty met his view. 

And filled his heart with glad content— 

A HARVEST sure of time faith-spent. 


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pottle 50 

1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou an ensample in faith. 
Matt. 14. 31.—Wherefore didst thou doubt? 

2 Cor. 9. 6.—He which soweth bountifully. 


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Pottle 51 

Dr. Francis Clark tells an interesting story of a young man 
living in Maine, who was out in the woods one day with his 
camera, taking photographs of attractive bits of scenery. 

He came upon the mouth of a little cavern between rocks, and 
he said to himself, “I will see what sort of a picture I can get 
out of that cave,” and as it was a dark day, he decided to take a 
time exposure instead of a snap shot. 

Steadying the camera upon his knee as well as he could at the 
edge of the cave, he gave the sensitive plate a long, deliberate 
look at the semi-darkness within. 

He went upon his way through the woods, returning home and 
several weeks afterwards, in a leisure day, he developed his 
picture. 

Imagine his astonishment to SEE in the picture, in the very 
center of the cavern, with arched back and bristling fur and 
within springing distance of where he had balanced his camera, 
a huge Canada Lynx, that might have easily torn his eyes out or 
have destroyed his life, and yet he came and went and saw no 
signs of DANGER. 

It certainly behooves us to be grateful for dangers that are seen 
and are escaped, but it behooves us to be grateful for dangers 
that are unseen and are escaped, that doubtless outnumber 
manyfold the dangers seen. 


Pottle 52 

A poor Hottentot in Africa lived with a good Dutchman, who 
always had DAILY FAMILY PRAYER. 

One day the Dutchman began to read the parable of the two 
men who went up in the temple to pray. 

The poor savage, whose heart was already awakened, looked 
earnestly at the reader and whispered to himself, Now I will learn 
how to pray. 

The Dutchman read on, “God, I thank thee I am not as other 
men.” 

“No, I am not, but I am worse,” whispered the Hottentot. 

Again the Dutchman read: “I fast twice in the week. I give 
tithes of all I possess.” 

“I don’t do that. I can’t pray in that manner. What shall I 
do?” said the distressed savage. 

The good man read on until he came to the PUBLICAN who 
“would not lift so much as his eyes to heaven.” 

“That is me,” said the listener. 

“Stood afar off,” read the other. 

“That’s where I am,” said the Hottentot. 

“But smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a 
SINNER.” 

“That’s me. That’s my prayer,” cried the poor creature, and 
smiting on his breast he prayed: “God be merciful to me, a 
sinner,” until, like the poor publican, he went away a FORGIVEN 
and a happy man. 


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Pottle 51 

Gen. 7. 16.—God shut him in. 

Job 19. 20.—Escaped with the skin of my teeth. 
1 Cor. 3. 15.—Saved, yet so as by fire. 


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Luke 18. 13.—God be merciful to me, a sinner. 

Lev. 13. 45.—And he shall cry, Unclean, unclean. 

2 Sam. 9. 12.—Mephibosheth—as one of the king’s sons. 
Isa. 55. 1.—Ho, everyone that thirsteth. 

John 6. 37.—I will in no wise cast out. 


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Pottle 53 

We speak of small duties—there are none. The least of our 
moral obligations has in it the sacredness of a divine edict. We 
are compassed about by whispered, “Do this,” or, “Do that.” It 
is the still small voice. And our character depends upon our 
heeding the voice. 

In the Cathedral of Modena there is a BUCKET which once 
belonged to the public well. It was stolen by some soldier in a 
frolic. 

Inquiry was made and the bucket was passed from hand to 
hand. At length it came into the possession of young Prince 
Henry, of Sardinia. 

A battle was fought to secure it—Prince Henry was made a 
PRISONER—His imperial father offered a gold chain seven 
miles long for his RANSOM, but it was refused. 

The prince lay twenty years in prison, pined away and died, 
and war was fomented in which most of the governments of 
Europe engaged and which involved the loss «of thousands of 
lives. 

No, there are no TRIFLES in human life. By what we call 
trifles men so involve or so enslave themselves as to be scarcely 
able to extricate themselves from their SLAVERY or to escape 
the PENALTY. 

Pottle 54 

The world has been startled by the wonders in plant and fruit 
LIFE produced by Luther Burbank. 

Another horticulturist by the name of Stevens has lately pro¬ 
duced a seedless and coreless apple. Little has been said about 
the great care and PATIENCE and time required to produce these 
RESULTS. 

If it takes twenty-five years of selection to make a spineless 
cactus or a coreless apple, which is a thing of earth and belongs 
only to time—why should we grow impatient at the TRANSFOR¬ 
MATION of a SOUL? 

It may take longer to make CHARACTER than anything else, 
but the longer time is well spent, because the character is worth 
infinitely more. 


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Why do we doubt the special providences of God? 

Was it strange that Molinaeus, taking REFUGE in an oven on 
the night of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew, should be 
spared? 

“Oh, God, cover me with thy hand!” he PRAYED, and while he 
prayed a spider wove its web across the oven’s mouth, a gust of 
wind filled the web with dust and the dew settled down upon the 
dust of the web. 

The web glistened in the morning sun and the fugitive’s heart 
stood still as the footfalls of his pursuers came nigh. Seeing the 
spider’s web, they said, “He is not here,” and so passed on and 
left him free. 


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pottle 53 

James 3. 5.—How great a matter a little fire kindleth! 
Hos. 4. 17.—Joined to idols. Let him alone. 

Acts 24. 16.—I worked myself up to have a conscience. 


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Heb. 6. 1.—Let us press on unto full growth. 

Gal. 6. 9.—In due season we shall reap—if. 

Luke 13. 8.—Lord, let it alone for this year also. 

Mark 4. 28.—After that, the full corn in the ear. 

2 Sam. 24. 24.—I will not offer that which costs me nothing. 


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James 5. 16.—Supplication availeth much. 
Matt. 14. 31.—Wherefore didst thou doubt? 
Judg. 5. 20.—The stars fought against Sisera. 
Gen. 7. 16.—God shut him in. 


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Pottle 56 

When the ordinance of 1311 was proclaimed, by which the 
ruling King expelled all Jews from France, on no conditions 
were the unfortunate exiles permitted to realize upon their 
property. One of them, fearing to risk his gold and jewels in the 
long voyage, sought out one of his neighbors, a citizen of Paris, 
and a good Christian, living in Notre Dame, and who enjoyed the 
high reputation of honesty. 

“I have a DEPOSIT to confide to your care,” said he. “Will 
you give me your simple word faithfully to return it to me?” 
The merchant gave his pledge and the Jew gave over his gold 
and jewels and went into exile. 

Four years afterward Louis le Houtin having permitted the 
Israelites to return to France, this Jew came back to Paris, and 
first he went to Notre Dame. 

With consternation he learned that the merchant had failed 
and was reduced to the most abject penury. 

The Jew was in despair, fearing that his own treasures had 
been lost in the general failure of the merchant. Nevertheless he 
could not resist the desire of speaking to him. 

He discovered him in a miserable garret, without furniture— 
shivering with cold, almost starving of hunger and worn away 
by grief. 

Reproach died away from the mind of the Jew as he looked, 
but when the merchant understood who it was, he raised himself 
up and hastily procured a secreted box. “Here is the DEPOSIT 
you entrusted to me.” 

“How is it!” exclaimed the Jew, “that you have preserved this 
untouched?” 

“It did not belong to me,” answered the old merchant, “and 
God be praised, it is returned to you.” 

“I would have gladly parted with it many times, but feared I 
should not be able to find one who would keep it safe, and so 
fulfilled my promise.” 

“Your griefs are at an end, for the half of my fortune belongs 
to you,” said the Jew to this Christian, and they lived together 
as brothers—with such stability should we keep our vows to God. 

Pottle 57 

The Bank of England has a list of twenty questions which are 
presented for answer to every man, young or old, who applies 
for a situation in the bank. 

And the first question is, “How do you spend your SUNDAYS?” 
If the person is able to answer truthfully that he attends Church 
regularly no other question is asked. 

Those who go to the house of God REGULARLY to worship 
have impressed upon them TRUTH, and an INFLUENCE which 
is the greatest power to fit a man to resist TEMPTATION. 

CHARACTER is what is to be depended on in responsible 
positions. Character is what counts, and there are influences for 
its upbuilding and safeguarding in the church that are greater 
than any other influences—by as much as God is greater than man. 


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Gen. 49. 4.—Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. 

2 Pet. 1. 5.—Add in thy faith valor. 

2 Tim. 1. 12.—He is able to keep my deposit. 

Prov. 20. 27.—The spirit of a man is the lamp of Jehovah. 
Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience. 

Exod. 2. 20.—And where is. he? 

Gen, 40. 23.—Yet did not the chief butler remember. 


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Exod. 20. 8.—Remember the sabbath day to keep it. 

Heb. 10. 25.—Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves. 
Luke 4. 16.—As his custom was. 


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Pottle 58 

The Rev. John Fawcett, of Moinesgate, in Yorkshire, on a salary 
of about $22 a year, had a much louder call to a church in 
London. 

He had his goods all in wagons when his loving, heart-broken 
people, as they clung to him, seemed to call to him more loudly 
than the London people, even with the larger salary included, so 
he had to go back to Moinesgate to stay with those who LOVED 
him so well. 

It was then he wrote the hymn, “Blest be the Tie that Binds”— 
a hymn that the Church could not well do without and has been 
singing since 1772. 

A hymn like this immortalizes a name, and perpetuates the 
INFLUENCE for eternity. 

One never knows when he may do the thing that shall mark him 
as GREAT. 


pottle 59 

On a very slippery day in the winter a young negro was making 
his way home with a large basket on his arm, full to the brim. 

Treading unwarily on a bit of glare of ice, he came down sud¬ 
denly with a crash that emptied his basket into the street. 

Surrounded by garden products he lay at full length, his head 
supported on his hand, looking calmly about him. 

Seeing him still prostrate a gentleman hurried to him, anxiously 
asking, “Are you hurt?” “No,” was the answer. “Then, why 
don’t you get up?” “’Taint worth while.” 

Like this young negro, a good many of us spill out our little 
basket of plans into the street and, like him, too often conclude 
that it isn’t worth while to get up, gather up the plants and 
PERSEVERE in our journey and our struggle. It may be 
amusing when only a basket of garden products is spilled and a 
negro gives up. It is not amusing but dangerously serious when 
we spill our plans and give up to indolence. 

Pottle 60 

An old Sunday-school superintendent gives this incident. He 
had asked his pupils to bring each of them a new scholar to 
Sunday-school. 

One went to his Father and said, “Father, will you go to Sun¬ 
day-school with me?” “I can’t read, my son,” replied the father. 

“Our teacher will teach you,” answered the boy. “Well, I’ll go,” 
said the father. 

He went, learned to read, SOUGHT and found the Saviour, and 
at length became a colporteur. Years passed on and that man 
had established four hundred Sunday-schools, into which thirty- 
five thousand children were gathered. That boy’s efforts were 
like a tiny rill which soon swells into a brook and at length 
becomes a river. His efforts SAVED his father, who led thirty- 
five thousand children into the Sunday-school. 


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2 Sam. 24. 24.—I will not offer that which costs me nothing. 

1 Kings 19. 19.—Plowman Elisha with twelve yoke before him. 
Mark 2. 12.—We never saw it on this fashion. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 

Phil. 3. 7.—These I counted loss for Christ. 


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Heb. 10. 36.—Ye have need of hold-on-to-it-iveness. 

Gal. 6. 9.—For in due season ye shall reap if ye faint not. 
Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the Spirit is faith. 

2 Cor. 12. 14.—The third time I am ready to come to you. 

Acts 8. 20.—Join thyself to this chariot. 

2 Kings 2. 10.—Determined to (time of) asking, if thou see me 
it shall be. 


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Isa. 11. 6.—A little child shall lead them. 

John 6. 11.—Jesus took the loaves. 

1 Cor. 1. 27.—God hath chosen the weak things. 
James 3. 5.—How great a matter a little fire kindleth. 


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pottle 61 

You have possibly heard the allegory of the council of the 
devils in hell at a time when Satan heard that a REVIVAL had 
commenced in a certain community. 

According to the allegory, he called his counselors together and 
asked the imps for advice as to how the spiritual atmosphere 
might be cancelled. 

One said: “I could break up that revival. I would go and laugh 
at the people and tell them they were a pack of fools—that there 
was no God—no devil—no heaven and no hell. I would say, Eat, 
drink, for TOMORROW ye may die.” 

Satan said: “You need not go. You would not find anyone that 
would believe you.” 

Another imp, shrewder than the first, said: “Let me go. I 
will go to them and tell them that a portion of the BIBLE is 
TRUE—that there is a God and Heaven, hut no Devil and no 
hell; that no one can tell what part is false and what is true, and 
no matter how they might live, they will go to heaven when 
they die.” 

But Satan said: “You need not go. You might find some people 
that would try to believe you, but not many, and especially at 
this time would few be willing to risk your word.” 

“Let me go,” said a third imp, the shrewdest and meanest of 
them all. “I will go and tell them, The Bible is all true—there 
is a God, a heaven, a Devil and a hell, and that people must make 
their CHOICE in this life as to where they will spend eternity, 
and then I will say, But you have plenty of time. Tomorrow 
will do as well. There is no hurry about it.” Satan said, “Go.” 

This is an allegory, but it is an allegory with underlying facts, 
both as to the Devil’s methods and as to his success. 

Strong drink furnishes our penitentiaries with seven-tenths of 
their inmates. As truly may it be said, doubtless, that procrasti¬ 
nation furnishes the lost world with nine-tenths of its inmates. 

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In 1770 Santo Domingo was visited by an earthquake, scarcely 
less severe than that of San Francisco. 

In Port-au-Prince, its chief town, resided a rich French family. 
After the first sudden shock, father, mother, children, and servant 
had been able to effect an exit from their tottering house—all 
except a negress in charge of the baby boy, on the upper floor. The 
faithful nurse hastened to carry the baby down stairs, but a 
second and still more terrific shock followed, and the entire stair¬ 
case fell in. From what was found afterwards the nurse was 
regardless of herself and with the white muslin folds of her long 
loose robe she had covered the tiny sleeper and then bending over 
him formed by her person a protection for him. 

There were many earthquake shocks. It would seem the 
negress had kept her post, for a few hours later, amid heaps of 
debris, the searching party discovered the dying woman. 

On lifting the white robe which covered the child, they found 
the little one perfectly safe, but the woman dying. 


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Num. 14. 25.—Tomorrow get you into the wilderness. 

Jer. 8. 20.—The harvest is past—the summer ended—not saved. 
Lam. 3. 27.—It is good to bear the yoke in youth. 

Matt. 5. 25.—Agree with thine adversary quickly. 

Luke 19. 4.—:The man in the sycomore tree. 

Acts 24. 25.—Felix trembled and said, “Go thy way for this 
time.” 


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Mark 15. 31.—He saved others, himself he cannot save. 
Phil. 3. 7.—These I counted lost for Christ. 

2 Sam. 1. 26.—Thy love to me was wonderful. 


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A steamer of the Hamburg-American line which arrived at 
New York not long since, brought the crew of a barkentine which 
had been rescued near Hogstye Reef, on the Bahamas. The 
captain said the wreck of his vessel was the most mysterious ho 
had ever known. 

He had kept careful reckoning, and according to his compass 
and chart he should have been a long distance from the reef. 
Suddenly and without the slightest warning the vessel crashed 
broadside upon the rocks. He was completely at a loss to ac¬ 
count for the wreck until he and his crew struggled through the 
waves and reached the reef; then the mystery was explained. 

A large steamship laden with steel rails had been WRECKED 
on the same reef some weeks before. The vast mass of steel had 
fallen on the reef when the steamer broke up and its INFLUENCE 
was quite strong enough to affect any compass that came within 
short distances. 

On the reef, at fifty yards distance, was the wreck of a large 
schooner. 

Thus one wreck leads to others. It is very frequently so in the 
moral and spiritual world. 

No man is wrecked but that he exercises a dangerous influence 
over others. 


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When the lofty palm tree of Teilan puts forth its flowers the 
sheath bursts with a report that wakes the forest, but thousands 
of other flowers of equal beauty and utility open to the world 
without a sound. 

And so it is with life. There are some that open into ecstasies 
at once, and their opening is known to all. But with the great 
multitude of lives it is different. They open without demonstra¬ 
tion, and yet with as much beauty and utility as the life that is 
like the Teilan palm. 

Among those in the time of Jesus and the apostles we have 
only two or three out of the multitude that opened like the 
Teilan palm. 


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We need not fear the attacks of infidelity. 

A Spanish frigate lay all night in the Indian Ocean, firing 
numerous broadsides at a craft which was discovered after they 
came to anchor, but not a shot was returned. 

The day broke and lo! a mighty rock was seen standing out of 
the sea, unharmed by all the ammunition of this foolish crew. 

So the Scriptures as an impregnable rock, without reply, 
stands unharmed before the broadsides of its blinded foes. 

What will they think when their vision is opened to the 
morning and they see unharmed the object of their attack? 


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2 John 1. 7.—Many deceivers are entered into the world. 
Heb. 3. 13.—The deceitfulness of sin. 

1 Cor. 10. 12.—Let him that standeth take heed. 

Rom. 14. 7.—None of us liveth to himself. 


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Isa. 19. 12.—After the fire, a sound of gentle stillness. 
Isa. 40. 31.—They that wait upon the Lord. 

1 Thes. 4. 11.—Study to be quiet. 

Heb. 4. 2.—Not mixed with faith. 

Acts 3. 8.—Leaping and praising God. 


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John 5. 39.—Search the scriptures. 

John 17. 17.—Thy word is truth. 

Acts 17. 12.—Examined the scriptures daily, therefore 
believed. 

1 Cor. 1. 20.—Where is the joint-seeker of this world. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and profitable. 



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Sermon Suggestions for Ezra 8. 24. 

THE JOURNEY: 

THEIR Journey:—Four months they traveled, a long journey. 

BRIGANDS infested the fastnesses and endangered them. 

THY JOURNEY:—A long journey from earth to HEAVEN, 
or from earth to hell, and like as the brigands with them, so 
our enemies endanger us. 

THE TREASURE: 

THEIR Treasure:—Two millions in Value to weigh in Jeru¬ 
salem, or to lose on the journey. 

THY Treasure:—Infinitely more thou carriest than two 
millions to weigh into the New Jerusalem, or to lose. 

THE DESTINATION: 

THEIR Destination:—Canaan, flowing with milk and honey. 

THY Destination:—The eternal Canaan, the New Jerusalem. 

THE SAFE CONDUCT': 

THEIR Safe Conduct was Jehovah, God of Israel—they reached 
their destination and weighed all their treasures in. 

THY Safe Conduct, the God of heaven; so shalt thou make 
thy journey safe and weigh all thy treasures in. 

Had they accepted a safe conduct of the king would they have 
had a safe journey and have weighed in ALL their treasure? 

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Over in London a noble woman died. God touched her heart 
and it stopped beating. They carried her into one of the greatest 
auditoriums in London, that the people might pay her honor. 

A representative of the queen came, lords and ladies walked 
past the casket. Finally the poor were given the building, and 
they surged, a great mass of people, past the casket. 

Toward the last there came a poor woman, with every mark of 
POVERTY about her dress, a little shawl pinned over her head. 
She carried a baby in her arms and led an older child. 

When she reached the casket she put the baby down, loosed 
the clasp of the older child and bent over the coffin. Stooping 
thus she delayed the crowd back of her. 

One of the attendants quietly put her hand upon the woman’s 
shoulder and said: “Madam, you must move on; you are stopping 
the people.” She turned and faced the woman and the crowd 
and lifting her hands she said: “I will not move on. I have 
walked forty miles and carried my baby that I might see this 
woman’s FACE. She SAVED my BOYS from hell and I have a 
right to look and weep.” Then she bent and covered the glass 
that was over the face with her kisses, while the people sobbed 
in sympathy with her. 

The woman sleeping in that casket was Catharine Booth, 
mother of the SALVATION ARMY. 

Shall we show less gratitude to Christ, or less worthily 
witness? 


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Ezra 8. 29.—Watch and keep until ye weigh at Jerusalem. 
Psa. 62. 5.—Wait thou only upon God. 


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Gen. 47. J3.—How old art thou? 

Matt. 11. 5.—The poor have the gospel preached unto them. 
2 Sam. 18. 29.—Is the young man saved? 

Gen. 40. 23.—Yet did not the chief butler remember. 

Rev. 22. 4.—And they shall see his face. 


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The Rev. Dr. David Gregg furnishes an illustration of anxiety 
in an incident in the experience of a tourist. 

Late one night after the moon, which was the tourist’s guide, 
had gone down, he found himself LOST in the mountains. 
There were only a very few hours left before daybreak, but in¬ 
stead of SITTING down quietly and waiting for the morning, 
he determined if possible to find a certain path which led into 
the open road. 

He was cautiously feeling his way and seeking the path when 
his foot slipped and he caught at the first shrub or root that he 
could find and clung desperately to it, supposing that he was 
hanging over the brink of an abyss. He continued with a death 
grip to hold on to that which he laid hold of in falling, fearing 
that he would be plunged over the precipice. Thus he continued 
in an agony of FEAR until the light began to break, and 
glancing toward his feet he found that they were swinging but 
a few inches from the solid ground. 


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Down in the darkness in the heart of the steamer the engineer 
stands. He never sees the vessel move. He does not know 
where she is going. It is not his duty to know. It is his DUTY 
to answer every signal to start his engine, to quicken or 
diminish its motion, or to reverse it, just as he is directed by 
the one whose part it is to know the journey. But the engineer 
has nothing whatever to do with the vessel’s course. 

So with us it is not our part to GUIDE our life through this 
world amid its tangled affairs. It is our part to be obedient to 
our Master’s signals. He is at the helm. He PILOTS us. 

And though our labor be HIDDEN away from the eye of man, 
it is not hidden from HIM and is as worthy as though it were 
not secret. 


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There is a story of a BOY who left his home and went to the 

city alone for the first time. He set out with forebodings, but 

everything turned out better than his fears. 

The conductor was kind; a stranger sat beside him and de¬ 
scribed the places as they passed. A driver at the city station 

knew exactly where he wanted to go. When it was all over he 

learned that his FATHER had been with him all the day in 
another car, planning for his comfort and sending helpful 
persons to him. 

In every day of life this is God’s way with every one of us. 


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Isa. 40. 1.—Comfort ye my people. 

Isa. 5. 13.—Into captivity because no knowledge. 

John 4. 10.—If thou knewest. 

Isa. 1. 3.—The ox knoweth, but my people do not know. 
Psa. 37. 5.—Roll thy way upon Jehovah. 

1 Pet. 5. 7.—Casting all your anxiety on him. 


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1 Sam. 15. 22.—To obey is better than sacrifice. 

Matt. 6. 18.—Thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward. 
Eccl. 12. 14.—Every work into judgment with every secret 
thing. 

3 John 1. 9.—Diotrephes, who loved the preeminence. 

Col. 1. 18.—That he might have the preeminence. 


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Matt. 6. 9.—Our Father who art in heaven. 

2 Cor. 6. 18.—Ye shall be my sons and daughters. 

Psa. 37. 5.—Roll thy way upon Jehovah. 

Psa. 42. 11.—Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise Him. 


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Bishop Thoburn tells us a beautiful story about the picture 
of his dead child. It was an imperfect photograph, so blurred 
that scarcely a trace of the features could be seen. 

One day he took the picture to an artist and asked him if he 
could do anything to improve it. 

In three weeks the bishop saw the picture in its frame on 
the wall and was startled. It seemed as if his child were living 
again before him. The IMAGE had been in the old picture, but 
was concealed by the blurs and mists that were there also. 

The artist had brought out the image until it was like life 
again. 

In every true disciple there is the image of the Master. It 
may be dim, the features may be overlaid with blemishes and 
the image scarcely discernable. It is the work of Christ to 
bring out this likeness until at last it lives in undimmed beauty. 
This thought of restoration is glorious, but not less glorious is 
the thought of seeing the FACE of Him who is more loved by 
us than the daughter by Bishop Thoburn. 

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A tragic story is told of the late Prince Napoleon. He had 
joined the English Army and was one day at the head of a squad 
riding horseback outside of the camp. 

One of the company said: “We had better return; if we don’t 
hasten we may fall into the hands of the enemy.” 

“Oh,” said the prince, “let us stay here ten minutes and drink 
our coffee.” 

Before the ten minutes had passed a company of Zulus came 
upon them and in the skirmish the prince lost his life. 

His mother, when informed of the fact, said: “That was his 
great MISTAKE from babyhood. He never wanted to go to 
bed in time, nor to arise in time. He was ever pleading for ten 
MINUTES more; when too sleepy to speak he would lift up his 
two little hands and spread out his ten fingers, wanting ten 
minutes more. I sometimes called him ‘Mr. Ten Minutes.’ ” 

PROCRASTINATION is sometimes from babyhood and is the 
more dangerous, while the parent is more blamable. 

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Arch las, a Grecian chief magistrate, was so unpopular that 
his people conspired against his life. The day drew near for the 
execution of the plot. Archias was crazed with wine. 

A courier arrived from Athens and put into his hands what 
afterward proved to be an account of the whole conspiracy. 
The courier warned him: “My lord, the person who writes you 
these letters conjures you to read them IMMEDIATELY, they 
contain serious affairs. Archias replied: “SERIOUS affairs 
TOMORROW,” and continued his REVEL. That night, in the 
midst of his mirth, the conspirators rushed into his palace and 
murdered him and his associates. 


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Psa. 17. 15.—I shall be satisfied. 

Gen. 1. 27.—Man in his own image. 

Jude 1. 24.—Faultless before the presence of his glory. 
Rev. 22. 4.—And they shall see his face. 


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Heb. 2. 3.—How shall we escape if we neglect? 

Luke 4. 16.—As his custom was. 

1 Kings 20. 40.—Thy servant was busy here and there. 

2 Cor. 6. 2.—Today is the day of salvation. 

Acts 24. 25.—Felix trembled and said, “Go thy way for this 
time.” 


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Heb. 2. 3.—How shall we escape if we neglect? 

1 Kings 20. 40.—Thy servant was busy here and there. 

Heb. 11. 25.—Pleasures of sin for a season. 

Acts 24. 25.—Felix trembled and said, “Go thy way for this 
time.” 


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One day when James Brainerd Taylor, then a young man, was 
out driving, he stopped at a water TROUGH. Another YOUNG 
man was watering at the same trough. Taylor said: “I hope 
you love the Lord; if you do not, I want to commend Him to you 
as your best friend.” 

The STRANGERS went their way. The young man was 
CONVERTED, entered the ministry, went to Africa as a mis¬ 
sionary. Years after he said: “Over and over again I wished 
I knew who that man was who spoke to me at the watering 
trough, hut I never knew until some one sent to me in Africa a 
box of books. Opening one I turned to the title page and saw a 
portrait, ‘Oh, that is the man! That is the man who PREACHED 
to me at the watering trough.’ ” It was the portrait of Brainerd 
Taylor. 


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SHINE THOU AS THE LIGHT: 

Stand thou near to its SOURCE, 

And open thy life to light’s life-giving day; 

For the in-coming beam feeds the outgoing ray. 

SHINE THOU AS THE LIGHT: 

Let thy HARMONY tell to the world 
That the light doth CONTENTION expel, 

And doth settle the lives of the many from strife, 

More and more as the light shineth in on the life. 

SHINE THOU AS THE LIGHT: 

As the natural light doth incessantly shine. 

Nor lightens a palace more than cottage of thine: 

So shine thou INCESSANTLY, at home and abroad: 
To the poor and the weary uncover thy light, 

And God shall uplift thee from earth’s transient night. 
To heaven, where shineth light’s perfect delight. 

SHINE THOU AS THE LIGHT: 

Yea, NOISELESSLY shine— 

Let no one persuade thee that less noise is less brave: 
For the currents of ocean and life that are strongest, 
ARE firm, deep, BUT NOISELESS 
Like light’s noiseless wave. 

SHINE THOU AS THE LIGHT: 

Let its ENERGY speak 

And spur thee to action, not fickle and weak 
But strong, quick, undaunted— 

Like light’s leaping beams, 

Oh, shine as the Christ-light, 

The LIGHT that REDEEMS. 


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Prov. 11. 30.—He that is wise winneth souls. 
Acts 8. 4.—Everywhere preaching the word. 
Acts 8. 29—Join thyself to this chariot. 

Acts 20. 20.—From house to house. 


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Matt. 5. 14.—Ye are the light of the world, 
James 3. 16.—"Where envy and strife is. 
Matt. 6. 3.—Let not thy left hand know. 

1 Thes. 4. 11.—Study to be quiet. 

Eccl. 9. 10.—Do it with thy might. 


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Von Zealand, Frederick the Great’s greatest general, was a 
Christian and the king was a SCOFFER. One day the king was 
making his coarse jokes about the Saviour and the whole place 
was ringing with guffaws of laughter. It was too much for Von 
Zealand, the general that had won numerous and great battles 
for Prussia and had really put the CROWN on the king’s brow. 

With German militariness he stood up and said, amid the 
hush of FLATTERERS, shaking his gray head solemnly: “Sire, 
you know I have not FEARED death, you know I have FOUGHT 
for you in thirty-eight battles and thirty-eight battles I have won. 
Sire, my hairs are gray; I am an old man; I shall soon have to 
go into the presence of a greater than thou, the mighty GOD 
who saved me from my sin, the Lord Jesus Christ whom you are 
BLASPHEMING against. Sire, I cannot stand to hear my 
Saviour spoken against. I salute thee, sire, as an old man, who 
loves the Saviour, on the edge of eternity.” 

Frederick the Great, with a trembling voice, said: “General 
Von Zealand, I beg your pardon, I beg your pardon.” The com¬ 
pany dispersed in silence, and the king reflected as never before 
on that Greater One whom his general REVERENCED, even 
above himself. Stand up for Christ! Be VALOROUS! 


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The American Messenger tells the story of a young man who 
was PROCRASTINATING and his danger was revealed to him 
in a DREAM. 

He became a Christian in the middle of the night. He felt 
that he could not give up a grudge he held and give his life to 
Christ in the evening, and so he went to bed and to sleep. 

He dreamed that he was at a railroad station. It was of great 
importance to him to take the train about to start. For some 
reason he was not inclined to step on board. The train started. 
One car after another passed him with increasing speed. The 
last car on the train was passing and its rear platform was over 
against him. 

In his dream he said to himself, “It is NOW or never!” and 
seizing hold of the rail he barely succeeded in swinging himself 
upon the platform. 

He awoke and at once felt that he understood the meaning of 
his dream. He said to himself, that is God’s WARNING to me. 
I must decide NOW or I am lost forever. 

He arose from his bed at the midnight hour and knelt down 
before GOD. After a fierce struggle he gave up his UNFORGIV¬ 
ING spirit and gave himself to Christ. He could FORGIVE 
when God for Christ’s sake was forgiving him. 

PROCRASTINATION is thus sometimes seen to be caused by 
an unforgiving spirit; a spirit that shall in no wise pass through 
the gates of the city. 


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1 Cor. 15. 10.—I am what I am. 

2 Tim. 1. 12.—Nevertheless I am not ashamed. 

Matt. 26. 72.—He denied with an oath—I do not know. 
2 Pet. 1. 6.—Add in your faith valor. 


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2 Cor. 6. 2.—Now is the accepted time. 

Jer. 8. 20.—The harvest is ended and we are not saved. 
Acts 24. 25.—When I have a convenient season. 

Heb. 2. 3.—How shall we escape if we neglect? 

Heb 2. 1.—Lest we drift by them. 


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As Andrew Jackson lay dying, he was asked by his pastor: 
“Do you FORGIVE all your enemies?” “I forgive all my 
enemies freely from my heart,” he replied. “But the men who 
foully lied about my poor dead wife I will not forgive.” “The 
Saviour made no EXCEPTIONS,” said the minister, gently. 
“ALL your enemies,” He said. 

There was a long silence, during which the old soldier seemed 
greatly distressed. Suddenly he looked up, a tender smile on his 
face. “I can do it,” he said reverently. “I will pray to God to 
forgive them.” 

A Persian simile reads: “Forgive thine enemies and be to thy 
bitterest foe like the Sissoo tree, which perfumes with its odors 
the ax which brings it level with the ground.” 


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We are told that a man who visited Canova when he was 
working upon one of his statues thought he was trifling as he 
touched the marble so lightly, but the great Sculptor said, “The 
touches which you hold in such light esteem are the very things 
which make the difference between a BUNGLER and the master¬ 
piece of an ARTIST. As in the works of human genius, so in 
religious life, perfection is the result of careful attention to 
LITTLE things. 

It is by little touches that the character is changed by a life 
association. 


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U. BOR. SING, the heir of the Rajah of Cherra, India, was 
converted by the Welsh missionaries. He was warned that he 
would probably forfeit his right to the crown of Cherra after the 
death of Rham Sing, who then ruled. The chiefs of the tribes met 
and unanimously decided that Bor Sing was entitled to succeed 
Rham Sing, but his Christian profession stood in the way. Mes¬ 
sengers were sent repeatedly urging him to RECANT. He was 
invited to the native council and told if he would put aside his 
Christianity they would crown him king. 

His answer was: “Put aside my Christian profession! I can 
put aside my head-dress or my cloak, but as for the COVENANTS 
I have made with my God I cannot, for any consideration, put 
that aside.” Another was therefore appointed king instead of 
Bor Sing, who was subjected to persecution and impoverished, but 
he remained faithful in it all. 


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Matt. 6. 15.—If ye forgive not man. 

Matt. 18. 32.-‘-I forgave thee all that debt. 

Matt. 5. 44—Pray for them that despitefully use you. 


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Zech. 4. 10.—The clay of small things. 

Mark 4. 28.—After that the full corn in the ear. 

1 Kings 7. 22.—Upon the top of the pillars, lily-work. 

2 Kings 3. 11.—Elisha, who poured water on the hands of 
Elijah. 

Prov. 27. 17.—So a friend shapeth the face of a friend. 


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Rev. 2. 10.—I will give thee a crown of life. 

Ruth 1. 14.—But Ruth clave unto her. 

Phil. 3. 7.—Those I counted loss for Christ. 

Mark 8. 36.—What profit if a man gain and lose. 

Luke 6. 23.—In that day, leap for joy. 

Heb. 11. 26.—Accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches. 


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A gentleman crossing the English Channel stood near the 
helmsman. It was a calm and pleasant evening and no one 
dreamed of a possible danger to the good ship, but a sudden 
flapping of a sail as if the wind had shifted, caught the ear of the 
officer on WATCH. He sprang at once to the wheel, examining 
closely the compass. 

“You are half a POINT off the course,” he said sharply to the 
man at the wheel. The deviation was corrected and the officer 
returned to his post. “You must steer very accurately,” said 
the looker-on, “when half a point is so much thought of.” 

“Yes, for half a point in many places might bring us directly 
on the rocks,” answered the officer. 

So it is in life. Half a point from truthfulness strands us 
upon the rocks of falsehood. Half a point from perfect honesty 
and we are steering for the rocks of time, and so of all kindred 
sins or vices. 

The beginnings are always SMALL. No one climbs to the 
summit at one bound, but goes the one little step at a time. 


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A fisherman stood on the bluffs above his flooded hut on the 
coast of England and wondered where the GOOD was found. 

But the STORM that flooded his hut was the storm that sunk 
the Spanish Armada in the depths of the sea and SAVED England 
from the terrors of a Spanish INQUISITION, with its tortures 
and death. 

The fisherman’s hut was flooded, but his country and kindred 
and his own life were saved. 

Had the fisherman known then he would not have wondered, 
nor have complained. The fisherman had need of faith. 

Faith takes of NOW and of HEREAFTER and exclaims, “All 
for good!” 


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Over in Scotland when they widened the North bridge of Edin¬ 
burgh they discovered a marvelous condition. 

Down in one of the vaults they found a most wonderful cave 
of snow-white STALACTITES. The secret of it was this: The 
rain percolating through the roof had carried with it the lime of 
the cement and by a SLOW, SILENT process it transformed the 
gloomy vault into a fairy scene. It was down under the common 
roadway, a thing of beauty, underneath the tread of busy feet. 

So there are lives far from the busy scene of trade, following 
the treadmill of an accustomed round of duties, PATIENTLY 
discharging the COMMON task, being beautified and ennobled by 
the process. 

How much there is of the COMMON-place and homespun; life 
is full of unassuming duties. 


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Gal. 5. 9.—A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 
2 Pet. 1. 5.—Add in your faith valor. 

1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart. 

2 Cor. 3. 18.—Changed into the same image. 


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Rom. 8. 28.—All things work together for good. 

Gen. 42. 36.—All these things are against me. 

1 Cor. 13. 12.—Now we see through a glass darkly. 
Lam. 3. 39.—Wherefore doth a living man complain 


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Gal. 5. 9.—A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 
2 Pet. 1. 5.—Add in your faith valor. 

1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart. 

2 Cor. 3. 18.—Changed into the same image. 


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A certain minister tells of a young man who came to him 
recently, asking the very important question: “What Christian 
work can I do?” 

I said to him, “What time do you rise in the morning?” “At 
half past six,” was the answer. 

“What time do you breakfast?” “At 7 o’clock.” 

“What do you do next?” “Go to the offices where I work.” 

“What do you do there?” “Work steadily until 12 o’clock.” 

“What do you do then?” “Go to lunch.” 

“What do you do next?” “Work steadily until half past five 
or six, and sometimes later.” 

“What do you do next?” “Go to supper.” 

“What do you do next?” “Read the paper or sometimes go to 
a concert or a lecture. Too tired to do much. Loaf around 
home generally.” 

“What do you do next. “Go to bed.” 

“Is that a sample of every day?” “Yes, of every day.” 

“When would you do Christian work?” “I don’t know.” 

“Murray,” I said, “God has so placed you that I don’t see 
where you would get time for Christian work.” Murray looked 
at me a moment and said, “I guess that’s so,” and he rose to go. 

“Wait, Murray,” I said. “Are there other men employed where 
you are?” “Yes, many,” he answered. 

“Do you do your work as well as the rest, or more poorly, or 
better?” “Oh, as well as any of them, I think.” 

“Do they know you are a Christian?” “Why, yes, I suppose.” 

“Do they know you are anxious to do Christian work?” “No, 
I don’t think they do.” 

“See here, Murray, here’s Christian work you can do. Start 
tomorrow. Do your work better than they do. See what needs 
to be done, as you never did. HELP the other fellow who is be¬ 
hind, if you can. Let them all know you are a Christian, not 
by talking, but by LIVING.” 

“Get in a helpful word here and there, get some fellow to 
drop his oaths, get some fellow to drop his beer, show Christ 
living in you and controlling you. Preach the gospel among your 
associates by the best life you can live. Try it, will you?” 

“He thanked me, said he never looked at it that way before. 

“Six weeks after this I met the superintendent of Murray’s 
department in the offices of the great corporation. 

“He said: ‘Isn’t Murray one of your men?’ “Yes,” was my 
reply, “Why?” 

He answered: “What’s come over Murray?” I could only say, 
“I don’t know. I didn’t know anything had come over him.” 

“Well, there has. He’s the best clerk in the whole force, and 
has DEVELOPED into that in the month past. He’s the best 
INFLUENCE about the whole place. The men all notice it. 
There is a different atmosphere in his department. He must 
certainly be a Christian. Quiet and earnest and full of spirit that 
imparts itself to others. Yes, something has come over Murray.” 

“We need more Murrays and you can be one, brother, if you 
will. Will you attempt it?” 


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1 Thes. 5. 11.—Edify one another. 

Gal. 6. 2.—Bear ye one another’s burdens. 

Matt. 20. 28.—To minister and to give his life. 

1 Cor. 15. 58.—Always abounding in the work of the Lord. 


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Some one tells of a curious little SPIDER in South America 
that has a home under the water. It has the power of forming a 
bubble about itself in which, like a diving bell, it sinks to the 
bottom, remaining there for hours, living below, but breathing 
the air from ABOVE. 

When it comes to the surface it is perfectly dry, not the 
slightest moisture having penetrated the atmosphere in which he 
lived. 

So may the believer be in this world: so surrounded by a 
heavenly ATMOSPHERE that evil will not contaminate him. 

Pottle 86 

A young LAWYER, an INFIDEL, going to the West to settle 
for life, made his boast that he would locate in some place where 
there were no churches, Sunday-schools, or Bibles. He found a 
place which substantially met his conditions. 

Before the year was out he wrote to a former classmate, a 
young minister, begging him to come and bring plenty of Bibles 
and preach and start a Sunday-school, “For,” said he, “I have 
become convinced that a place without Christians and Sabbaths 
and churches and Bibles is too much like HELL for any living 
man to stay in.” 


Pottle 87 

An officer in the United States Army while in Kansas set fire 
to some grass and the result was the greatest prairie FIRE ever 
known in the state. It swept clear across Kansas and into what 
is now Oklahoma. 

Streams and roads did not impede its progress. 

Thousands of settlers LOST their houses, with many horses 
and cattle. 

The man who set fire to the grass was very SORRY for his 
THOUGHTLESS, RECKLESS act, but he could not stop the fire, 
nor replace the property. 


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An advertising device is seen in the shop window of a drug 
store on Broadway, New York. 

It consisted of a glass globe which seemed to be filled with 
water in which several gold fish were swimming about. 

In the center of the globe, apparently in the water, a canary 
bird was hopping about entirely at his ease, with the fish swim¬ 
ming on all sides of him. 

Of course the globe had an interior cavity with an inner wall 
of glass around it. The BIRD and FISH were living in different 
elements, though the supply of the bird was INVISIBLE. A 
Christian life is like that canary bird, SUPPLIED with LIFE 
from invisible sources. 


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John 17. 15.—Keep them from the evil. 

2 Cor. 6. 17.—Be ye separate, saith the Lord. 


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1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou an ensample in manner of life. 

Psa. 119. 130.—The entrance of thy words giveth life. 

Acts 28. 6.—After they had looked, they changed their minds. 

2 Cor. 7. 1.—From filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 


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Gal. 5. 9.—A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 
James 3. 5.—How great a matter a little fire kindleth. 
Gen. 3. 6.—She took of the fruit. 

Judg. 16. 21.—He did grind in the prison house. 


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John 17. 15.—Thou shouldst keep them from the evil. 
2 Cor. 6. 17.—Be ye separate, saith the Lord. 

1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart. 

2 Cor. 7. 1.—From filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 


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A Presbyterian Elder, of Pennsylvania, furnishes us with a 
most practical illustration of the power of ASSOCIATION over 
the life. 

When a small boy a show came to his little town, not far from 
the farm, and the morning of the show his mother came to him 
with a bit of money to pay his way into the show, but he, in 
return, told her what was then the truth, he did not care to go 
to the show at all, but would go up to the town with the father, 
who was going upon a matter of business. 

The afternoon came and the father and boy went up to the 
town. The crowds were gathering for the show. It was the 
talk of every group on every hand. 

The boy began to get INTERESTED; then he went down to 
where many were standing, some little distance from the show 
grounds, where the tent and animal wagon and showman could 
be seen. 

He began to wish for the money his mother had offered him, 
and was lamenting to himself when he saw his father on the 
street; he would go and ask his father. 

There was a battle sharp but short between desire and pride; 
DESIRE was victor, off went our boy, and was soon back, gazing 
happily at the show grounds, eager to spend the money for the 
now greatly desired experience. ASSOCIATION did it, and is 
doing it repeatedly in the realm of religion* and of MORALS to 
this day. 

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It is a good thing to be PLEASANT and given to friendliness, 
and yet there are times when silence is golden. This is amusingly 
illustrated in the experience of a certain matronly woman, as 
told by herself: 

She found herself seated at a hotel table in the company of six 
strangers, all of whom were men. She was not the least embar¬ 
rassed on this account and set herself to make them feel com¬ 
fortable in her presence. Her first remark was to the one 
nearest her: 

“Quite a pleasant change in the weather.” There was no 
answer, so she turned to the man on her left. “Here is a news¬ 
paper if you would care to look at it.” The man shook his head, 
looked startled and did not speak. A younger man sitting opposite 
reminded her of her son at home, and she spoke next to him. 
“Anything particularly exciting going on in town?” He smiled, 
but did not speak. 

The woman then concluded that these men were all of them 
mutes and could not speak and was beginning to make signs, 
when an official touched her on the shoulder and said, respect¬ 
fully, “Madam, no one is allowed to talk to the gentlemen on 
the jury.” “The what?” said the woman. “The jury, madam. 
Those six men are on a jury. The other six are at the table with 
me.” Then for the first time did the woman recognize how 
thoroughly in place the Bible injunction sometimes is when it 
says, Study to be QUIET. 


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Prov. 4. 15.—Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, pass away. 

1 Cor. 15. 33.—Evil associations corrupt good morals. 

Luke 1. 17.—Turn the hearts of the fathers unto the children. 
Prov. 27. 17.—So a man shapeth the countenance of a friend. 


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1 Thes. 4. 11.—Study to be quiet. 

Eccl. 3. 7.—A time to keep silence. 

Prov. 25. 11.—A word fitly spoken is apples of gold. 
Isa. 46. 10.—Be still and know that I am God. 


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The AGENT of a powerful and wealthy business house saw an 
opportunity by which he felt sure he could make an enormous 
PROFIT for the firm, but in order to do so he would be compelled 
to DISOBEY the instructions which had been given him. He 
disobeyed and carried through a very successful deal by which 
his employers won a very large profit. If he had obeyed his 
orders he would have lost money for the company. 

Contrary to his expectations, instead of being commended for 
his shrewdness, he was promptly discharged. 

Next time he disobeyed he might have lost heavily. 

So with us in life. God does not demand of us SUCCESS, nor 
profit, but OBEDIENCE. 

It is for us to keep his COMMANDMENTS. 

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A story is told of a young man, Raphael, who went into a 
gambling room in Paris and lost his last penny to the gamblers. 
He decided to commit suicide, but planned to wait until dark. 
The day he spent in the museum of an antiquarian. 

He became interested in a skin on which was written: “Do 
you want me? Take me, with every desire I shrink; you can 
NEVER be rid of me.” 

The young man took the skin and wished for PLEASURE. 
He reveled in debauchery. The skin had shriveled. 

He loved a beautiful woman and wished for riches. Riches 
were his. Years went by. Only six inches of the skin remained. 
He tried to get rid of it, but he could not. Everything he wanted 
came, and still it shrank. The doctors fought with death; the 
NEVER be rid of me.” 

This is but a parable of real life. The UNSELFISH, whole¬ 
some life GROWS larger with the years, but it is the charac¬ 
teristic of a LIFE of SELFISHNESS that it SHRINKS as time 
passes. 

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During the summer of 1853 an invalid was induced by his 
physician to take treatment at the hydropathic establishment at 
Sudbrook PARK, near Richmond, in Surrey. During his sojourn 
he was one day walking through the grounds and parks with 
some friends and Dr. Ellis, the proprietor. 

The Doctor pointed out a large sycomore tree DEAD to the 
roots. “That fine tree,” said he, “was KILLED by a single worm.” 

In answer to our inquiry he told us that two years previously 
the tree was as healthy as any in the park. A wood-worm was 
observed by a naturalist who was staying at the establishment. 
The worm was forcing its way under the bark, and he remarked: 
“Let that worm alone, doctor, and it will kill that tree.” From 
time to time they observed the tunneling of the worm and it 
happened as the naturalist said. 

So oftentimes with one habit, one fault, or one sin in life. The 
strongest, most promising life is brought to death. 


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Num. 14. 25.—Tomorrow get ye into the wilderness. 

1 Sam. 15. 22.—To obey is better than sacrifice. 

2 Sam. 6. 3.—The Ark of God upon a new cart. 

John 15. 14.—My friends, if ye do whatsoever I command. 


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2 Cor. 9. 6.—He which soweth bountifully shall reap bounti¬ 
fully. 

Matt. 26. 15.—For thirty pieces of silver. 

Prov. 11. 25.—The liberal soul shall be made fat. 

Exod. 20. 17.—Thou shalt not covet. 


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Eccl. 9. 18.—One sinner destroyeth much good. 
Rom. 6. 23.—The wages of sin is death. 

Gen. 19. 20.—Is it not a little one? 

Num. 32. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you out. 


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Henry Drummond tells of a young girl who possessed a rare 
loveliness of CHARACTER. She always wore about her neck a 
small locket, but no one was allowed to open it. 

None of her companions ever knew what it contained until 
one day she was laid upon her bed with a dangerous illness. 

One of her girl comrades was granted permission to look into 
the locket, and saw written there these words: “Whom not having 
seen I LOVE.’* That was the SECRET of her BEAUTIFUL 
LIFE. 

A beautiful character is as possible for YOUTH as for old age. 


Pottle 95 

YOUTH is the time to make eternal IMPRESSION; the fabric 
of the mind seems to have phenomenal retention, and in after 
years, while other items of mature years are forgotten, the 
CHILDHOOD impression still lingers. An incident in the life of 
Chief Justice Olds, of the Supreme Bench of Ohio, furnishes us 
an example. 

In the city of Columbus men were working on a construction 
that required the use of a derrick. One of the derrick ropes had 
given away and a part of the derrick had fallen to the street, 
crushing an old man in its fall. 

The chief justice was passing at the time and at once and 
CHRISTIAN-like gave his HELP to the dying man, while others 
passed by with looks of inquisitiveness. 

The old man was lifted until he leaned against and rested in 
the arms of Judge Olds. He was unable to speak, but muttering 
to himself and to all questions he gave no heed. 

After a little Judge Olds began to repeat aloud “Our FATHER 
who art in Heaven,” and the muttering ceased until the prayer 
was ended. 

Then the sufferer began again his mournings and mutterings. 
The PRAYER was again repeated and the same reverent 
SILENCE by the sufferer, yet no word did he speak. 

The chief justice then repeated the first line of that mothers’ 
knee prayer: “Now I lay me down to sleep.” That sentence 
seemed to greatly affect the old, dying workman. It unloosed 
his tongue and he repeated word by word: “Now-I-lay-me-down- 
to-sleep; I-pray-thee-Lord-my-soul-to-keep.” Then the lips were 
silent and the chief justice saw that the old man’s soul had gone 
on to God. 

Did that infant prayer recall childhood memories and scenes of 
early years with such vividness as to prepare that soul to meet its 
God in peace? We cannot know. But this we know: That street 
scene of Columbus speaks of most precious child MEMORIES in 
old age and in DYING moments, and that chief justice speaks 
volumes as to PRACTICED Christianity in the streets of LIFE. 


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1 Pet. 1. 8.—Whom not having seen we love. 

1 John 4. 19.—We love him because he first loved us. 

Heb. 12. 2.—Laying aside every weight and sin by looking. 

2 Cor. 3. 18.—Changed into the same image. 


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Prov. 22. 6.—Train up a child and he will not depart from it. 
Joel 1. 3.—Tell ye your children of it. 

Matt. 11. 5.—The poor have the gospel preached unto them. 
2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy grandmother, thy mother, and thee. 

1 John 4. 20.—He that loveth God love his brother also. 


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Upon a certain occasion when Queen Victoria was at Balmoral 
she went out unaccompanied, visiting the cottages. 

Upon entering one she found an old bed-ridden man quite 
alone. “What!” said the queen, “have you no one to keep you 
company?” 

“No,” said the old man, “my folks be all away seeing the 
queen. They thought they might get a glimpse of her.” 

Her majesty talked to him for a time and read a chapter to 
him from the Bible and on leaving him she put in his hand a 
five-pound note, saying: “When your people come back tell them 
that while they have been to see the queen, the queen has been 
to see you.” 

How much more of MAJESTY, of true NOBILITY is seen in 
such a life than is found in the CASTE of the proud 
ARISTOCRAT or the Pharisaic churchman. 


Pottle 97 

The owner of a large machine shop concluded to teach his 
men a lesson about the importance of SMALL POSSESSIONS 
and DUTIES. 

In the machine shop there was suspended the great bar of 
steel, its weight up in tons. 

The owner gave to the foreman a piece of cork and a silken 
thread and bade him move the great bar of steel if he could, but 
not to touch it with his own strength. 

The foreman fastened the cork to the silken thread and hung 
the thread from a beam alongside the bar of steel. Then he 
fastened a second thread to the cork and held that thread in his 
hands. 

Drawing the piece of cork away from the great bar, he would 
let it return with its slight force, and thus at regular intervals 
the cork would strike against the steel bar. 

A foolish experiment, some would say, for the cork could never 
move the bar, but DESPISE not the day of small things, for 
under the PERSEVERING action the bar of steel begins to 
quiver and then to move under the INFLUENCE of this persistent 
application and soon it swings to and fro in obedience to such a 
small but persistent energy. 

I wonder how much we could, any of us, accomplish if we 
would only use the little gifts we find In our hands or in our 
reach. 

There is no more certain thing than that our usefulness in the 
world would be multiplied many, many fold and many a life 
would be MOVED that now hangs In stolid indifference. 


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Luke 19. 7.—Gone to be a guest of a sinner. 

Luke 16. 20.-—And there was a certain beggar. 

3 John 1. 9.—Diotrephes who loveth the preeminence. 
Acts 26. 22.—Witnessing both to small and great. 


Pottle 97 

Zech. 4. 10.—Despise not the day of small things. 
Heb. 10. 36.—Ye have need of patience. 

Exod. 4. 2.—What is that in thy hand? 

John 6. 11—And Jesus took the loaves. 


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There is nothing so ennobling and TRANSFIGURING as a pure 
COMPANIONSHIP. 

Writing of Beatrice, Dante says: “I behold a marvelous vision 
which has caused me to cease from writing in praise of my 
blessed Beatrice until I can celebrate her more worthily, which 
that I may do, I devote my whole soul to study, as she knoweth 
well; in so much that if it may please the Great Disposer of all 
things to prolong my life for a few years upon this earth I hope 
hereafter to sing of my Beatrice what never yet was said or 
sung of woman.” 

Beatrice was the inspiration of Dante’s mighty poem. Had she 
not been, the poem had not been. It was the blossom of a pure 
companionship, but greater companionship with greater trans¬ 
figuration is possible. 


Pottle 99 

Dr. John Hall tells an instance of the dangerous influence of 
bad books. 

Dr. Hall was called after midnight to the bedside of a dying 
man, whom he found in great distress of mind. 

The Saviour was presented in his sufficiency and willingness 
to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, and 
the throne of grace was earnestly entreated in his behalf. Again 
and again the sufferer rose and kneeled in prayer himself. 

At length he seemed to form a new resolution. He went to a 
trunk and taking from it a package of books, gave the books to 
Dr. Hall, saying: “Burn these BOOKS, lest they fall into other 
hands, for they have brought my soul to the verge of HELL.” 

He received the Doctor’s promise and his mental anguish passed 
away. He died apparently in the faith of Christ. 

Alas for the multitude of books, magazines, and papers which 
have poisoned SERPENTS hidden between the leaves. 


Pottle 100 

Earth Proposes, God determines even to this day; 
Youth is planning for successes 
Heaven is pitying earth’s distresses, 

From above the call descends:—life leaves its clay. 

“God is found within this shadow,” dost not thou say? 
Youth relieved of its distresses. 

Earth possessed of HEAVEN successes, 

From above the call descends:—life claims its clay. 

’Till that time do thou be wise, with love and praise; 
Scatter seeds for happy reapings, 

Dry thine eyes of all thy WEEPINGS, 

Cheer thy life in Heaven’s Reunion-resurrection day. 


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Rev. 3. 20.—Behold I stand at the door and knock. 

2 Cor. 3. 18.—Changed into the same image from glory to glory. 
1 Cor. 15. 33.—Evil associations corrupt good morals. 

Neh. 13. 24.—Their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod. 
Prov. 27. 17.—So a man shapeth the countenance of a friend. 


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Acts 19. 19.—Brought their books and burned them. 
Acts 26. 23.—Witnessing both the small and the great. 
Deut. 12. 30.—Enquire not after their gods. 

Psa. 119. 105.—Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. 

1 Cor. 1. 20.—Where is the joint-seeker of this world. 


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Lam. 3. 27.—It is good to bear the yoke in youth. 

Gal. 6. 7.—Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 
Eccl. 12. 1.—Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. 


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In the forests of Galicia the peasants have recently captured a 
WILD man, who for years has been the terror of the district. 
Travelers in numerous instances had been attacked by him, and 
he was accustomed to plunder the cottages of the peasantry for 
food. By those who had seen the man he was described as a 
MONSTER, unkempt and covered with hair from head to foot. 
Finally a hunting party was organized and he was captured. 
After he had been washed, shaven, and clothed he was identified 
as a man who had once held high public office in Austria. 

He had moved in the highest circles, but finally embezzled a 
large sum of MONEY. To escape justice he took refuge in the 
forest and his wandering made him a VAGABOND. Gradually 
he was TRANSFORMED into a savage. 

SIN makes vagabonds of many VICTIMS. 

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The Canadian ferry boat Niagara plies between Buffalo and 
Fort Erie, Ontario. Recently it became embedded in a great 
field of ice. The engines were POWERLESS against the ice-floe. 

The passengers were horror-stricken with fear of being carried 
over the falls, or the more imminent DANGER of being crushed 
against a pier of the international bridge. After great exertion 
they managed to free the boat and reach the American shore. 

That boat, HELPLESS in the grip of the ice-floe, is a fair illus¬ 
tration of man or woman who has been caught in the meshes of 
SIN and HABIT until they have no longer an efficient use of the 
enginery of the human WILL. Unless they are aroused to 
ESCAPE they may drift against some pier of life or over some 
falls to certain death. It is the business of every Christian to 
warn those who are thus enslaved. 


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A Colorado SHEPHERD tells this story of a dog that is his 
efficient helper in the care of a large flock of SHEEP. On one 
occasion the dog was left to keep watch of the flock, while the 
shepherd ate his supper. After he had eaten his supper he told 
the dog to put the sheep in the corral. This she refused to do, but 
started off over the prairie. 

The herder put the sheep in and went to bed. About midnight 
he was awakened by the barking of the dog at the corral. He got 
up and to his astonishment found the DOG with a band of about 
fifty sheep that had-strayed during the day without the herder’s 
knowledge. 

But the observant dog knew, and though hungry and tired from 
the day, she had gone into the NIGHT, SEEKING until she 
FOUND. The shepherd dog did this out of FIDELITY to duty 
and LOVE for the strayed sheep. How much better should a 
man be in his fidelity to his Master and his duty than a shepherd 
dog. How carefully flocks and FOLDS need to be watched. 


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Isa. 21. 12.—And also the night. 

Matt. 26. 15.—For thirty pieces of silver. 

Luke 12. 20—Then whose shall these things be? 

2 Kings 2. 10.—Thou hast been determined to (time of) asking. 
Neh. 7. 4.—The city, wide and large; the people, few. 


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Eph. 6. 12.—We fight against principalities and powers. 
Judg. 7. 30.—The sword of the Lord and of Gideon. 

Psa. 40. 2.—He brought me out of an horrible pit. 

1 Cor. 10. 12.—Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall. 
1 Pet. 5. 8.—Seeking whom he may devour. 


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Num. 14. 40.—Tomorrow get you into the wilderness. 

1 Sam. 15. 22.—To obey is better than sacrifice. 

Matt. 26. 15.—To minister and to give his life. 

John 15. 14.—My friends if ye do whatsoever I comand. 


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In Dante’s Purgatorio there is given a most picturesque as well 
as true presentation as to how the stain of SIN is washed from 
the soul. 

Leading Dante to a sequestered place Virgil places both his 
hands outspread upon the grass gathering up the dew. He 
washes the grime from off his companion’s tear-stained face. 
Although Dante had only looked upon sin, his slight association 
with it had polluted his FACE, and he must be cleansed by the 
dews of REPENTANCE. 

Virgil then girds his follower with a reed. Ascending the 
mountain they come to a rift in a cliff that rises above them. 
In this opening they see a gate and before the gate are three 
steps. The first step was of white marble, so polished and smooth 
that the poet could see himself mirrored exactly as he was. He 
must first KNOW his sin. 

The second step was of deeper hue than perse, was of rough 
and scorched stone, cracked lengthwise and athwart. If he were 
to see life, he must REPENT of sin and his life be rent in sobs of 
penitence. 

The third step was as flaming red as BLOOD when it spurts 
forth from a vein. Upon this step an angel of God held both his 
feet. A satisfaction must be rendered by himself, or by another. 
That SATISFACTION had been rendered by another, and so 
Dante was clear of penalty and might pass on without the 
shedding of his blood. 

Dante ascended the steps and with the point of his sword the 
angel inscribed on the poet’s forehead, “The seven peccata or 
sins.” 

Dante had not actually committed all these sins, but the evil 
dispositions were latent within him, and from them he must be 
CLEANSED. 

This gate was the gate of JUSTIFICATION, and the three steps 
necessary are here most truly pictured, while SIN, not as the 
outward act, but as the inward quality of the soul is more truly 
presented, more scripturally pictured than in many sermons. 

Pottle 105 

GENIUS is very oftentimes only the ability to stick to WORK. 
Professor Hibbard, of Wesleyan University, well-known through¬ 
out New England as a natural elocutionist, told before he died 
how he MASTERED Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells.” 

He said that he worked on that piece exclusively for an entire 
year four hours a day, six days every week, besides taking a 
lesson with his instructor every week of that time. 

When he recited it one could see the bells fairly leaping in 
the reeling steeple, and see all that was going on beneath them. 
His proficiency in this recitation was not so much of what we 
call genius but of persistent EFFORT. 

In religious life the same fact is manifest. In most cases where 
the truth of the life is known WORK and FIDELITY are the 
explanation. Ease has been disregarded and temptation has been 
resisted. 


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Isa. 1. 18.—Although your sins are as scarlet. 

2 Cor. 7. 11.—Ye sorrowed after a godly sort. 

Heb. 9. 22.—Without shedding of blood no remission. 
Rom. 5. 1.—Being justified by faith we have peace. 
Prov. 15. 33.—Before honor goeth humility. 


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2 Kings 3. 11.—Elisha, which poured water on the hands of 
Elijah. 

Heb. 10. 36.—Ye have need of hold-on-to-it-iveness. 

1 Cor. 15. 58.—For as much as your labor is not in vain in the 
Lord. 

2 Cor. 9. 6.—He that soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully. 
2 Cor. 5. 9.—We are ambitious to be well pleasing unto Him. 


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Pottle 106 

In the Dore gallery of art in Bond Street, London, is a painting 
entitled The Vale of Tears. It was the master’s last production 
and is supposed to represent life as it is from its earlier to its 
latter years, when friends have vanished and DEATH lies 
immediately at hand. 

In the center of a dreary, rocky, night-enshadowed land there 
opens a deep ravine. Downward along the rough way, as if ad¬ 
vancing toward the observer, comes the world’s Christ. 

His eyes are tender with pitying love. On the left shoulder 
he bears a CROSS; his hand is stretched forth as if in invitation; 
burning widely over his head is a resplendent circle of light, 
which lightens up the whole dark scene; the vale is a rough, 
craggy cleft between the mountains. 

On either side of this central figure, descending through the 
vale and pressing down the mountain sides, an innumerable com¬ 
pany of people is seen. Their crowding forms mingle far back 
upon the canvas. Only those near the Christ in this dense crowd 
are plainly enough painted to give expression of the life. All 
seem to have heard the invitation, “COME unto me all ye that 
labor and are heavy laden.” 

Some are kneeling at His feet. Other impotent ones are ad¬ 
vancing. The painting includes the most abject, the most pitiable. 

All ages of the WORLD, all climes, all ills are represented. 

Oriental mothers, with their infants, occidental statesmen, with 
their burdens, the Jewish high priest, with his sins, kings and 
queens, pallid with pressing care, great soldiers of centuries, great 
statesmen, great churchmen, priests of all faiths, crowds of the 
middle class and multitudes of the poor pressing down either 
side of the mountain around the central figure. 

But all of life is not seen, neither all the mind of the artist, 
except you discover in the left hand corner of the painting, 
CONCEALED amid the dark shadows and clinging in thick coils 
around a blasted tree the ugly, writhing form of a huge 
SERPENT. Here is the CURSE; here is the sin; here the 
explanation of the multitude; here the cause of the vale of tears. 

Pottle 107 

The Board of Trade Journal tells of a spider-web factory now 
in successful operation in France, where ropes are made of 
SPIDER WEB intended for balloons for the French military 
aeronautic section. 

The spiders are arranged in groups of twelve about a reel upon 
which the THREADS are wound. The web is washed and thus 
freed from the sticky cover. Eight of the threads are then taken 
and of these, cords are woven which are stronger and lighter than 
cords of silk of the same thickness. Thus so delicate a thing as 
the strand of a spider’s web can be multiplied until it becomes a 
strong ROPE with which one might strangle a man to death. 

So simple thoughts that are but shadowy at first, if indulged 
in, become cords of LUST or GREED or SIN to BIND the 
strongest to his undoing. 


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Matt. 11. 28.—Come unto me and I will give you rest. 
John 12. 19.—The world is gone after him. 

1 John 4. 19.—We love him because he first loved. 

Heb. 11. 34.—Out of weakness were made strong. 

Isa. 53. 5.—And with his stripes we are healed. 


pottle 107 

2 Sam. 18. 29.—Is the young man safe? 

Prov. 23. 2.—If thou be a man given to appetite. 

Song of Sol. 2. 15.—The little foxes that spoil the vine. 
Exod. 4. 2.—What is that in thine hand? 

1 Sam. 3. 13.—He restrained them not. 


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Pottle 108 

When Major-General O. 0. Howard was on the Pacific Coast 
some of his friends planned to honor him by a reception. They 
planned to have it on Wednesday night. 

It was to be a great affair and the President of the United 
States had given his sanction. 

When announcing the affair to Major General Howard they 
said: “General, we want to see you on a matter of business on 
Wednesday night of next week.” 

“Well, gentlemen, you cannot see me on that night, as I have a 
previous ENGAGEMENT.” 

They then explained that it was the reception that the President 
had given his sanction. 

The old veteran stood up and said: “You know I am a 
CHRISTIAN, and when I first became one I arranged my WORK 
so that I could go to PRAYER MEETING every Wednesday 
evening for PRAYER and PRAISE, and I never let anything 
INTERFERE with the keeping of that engagement.” 

They had the reception, but they had it on Thursday night. 

When J. Wilbur Chapman was in that cty he asked: “Who is 
the man who has the greatest INFLUENCE for GOOD in this 
community?” We are not surprised that the answer was: “It is 
Major-General Howard.” 


Pottle 109 

Argus is fabled to have had one hundred eyes, only two of 
which ever SLEPT at once. Jupiter sent Mercury to slay him, 
but he could not reach him UNAWARES. At last Mercury took 
the form of a SHEPHERD and played such charming music on 
his pandean pipes and told such interesting stories that the 
hundred eyes were all closed in sleep at once. Then Mercury cut 
off his head at a single stroke. 

Beware of him who comes with over-much music to compliment 
or flatter thee. 


Pottle UO 

A cobbler who could only SPELL out the meaning of the 
Bible used to gather a few barefoot CHILDREN in his shop on 
Sunday morning to TEACH them all he knew. 

ROBERT RAIKES happened to pass his shop one morning and 
was struck by the idea. He carried it out and the RESULT is 
the Sunday School of the World. 

Thus the Sunday School hero, like many others, is unnamed 
and unknown, and was unlearned, but possessed of zeal and a 
REVERENCE of the word of God. Angels on earth are enter¬ 
tained sometimes unawares and often depart without leaving their 
card to tell us who they are. There are great names that are 
known, but the greatest names are the unknown. 


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Pottle 108 

1 Cor. 11. 1.—Be ye imitators of me, even as I of Christ. 

1 Cor. 15. 10.—I am what I am. 

Gen. 49. 4.—Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. 

Exod. 17. 12.—Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands. 

Ruth 1. 14.—And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law. 

Psa. 18. 49.—I will give thanks unto thee among the nations. 
Prov. 20. 27.—The spirit of a man is the lamp of Jehovah. 
Eccl. 5. 4.—Pay that which thou hast vowed. 


Pottle 100 

Ezra 8. 29.—Watch ye and keep and weigh in Jerusalem. 

Psa. 119. 110.—The wicked have laid a snare for me. 

Matt. 3. 25.—While men slept the enemy came. 

1 Cor. 10. 12.—Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall. 

2 Cor. 11. 14.—Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light. 


Pottle UO 

2 Kings 3. 11.—Elisha, who poured water on the hands of 
Elijah. 

Psa. 139. 17.—How precious are thy thoughts unto me. 

Isa. 27. 6.—They shall fill the face of the world with fruit. 

Isa. 40. 31.—They that wait upon the Lord shall pass on their 
strength. 

Mark 4. 28.—First the blade, then the ear, after that the full 
corn. 

Mark 10. 13.—And were bringing unto him little children. 
John 6. 11.—And Jesus took the loaves. 


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In the year 1870 France declared war against Germany. 

When an official brought the message at NIGHT to Von Moltke, 
the general coolly said to the officer: “Go to pigeon hole No. 7, 
in my safe; take a paper from it and telegraph as there directed 
to the different troops of the empire.” 

The general then turned over and calmly went to sleep again. 
The next morning as Von Moltke was taking his customary walk 
a friend said to him: “General, you seem to be taking it very 
EASY. Aren’t you AFRAID of the situation? I should think 
that you would be very busy.” But Von Moltke replied: “All 
my work for this time has been done long BEFOREHAND and 
everything that can be done now has been done.” 

PREPARATION brings PEACE. The life-rest that many seek 
in the days of STORM and do not find because they carry no oil 
to settle the waves. 

He RESTS well who has done all that can be done. 

Pottle 112 

The CROWN that was used at the stately function of the 
coronation of Queen Victoria was the tiara. This was manufac¬ 
tured by the state jewelers in 1862, at the personal COST of her 
majesty, and may be said to weigh eighty troy ounces—nearly 
seven pounds. 

It consists of a light shell of gold, entirely encrusted with 
diamonds, 3,196 stones in all—523 are rose diamonds and 2,673 
brilliants. 

This CROWN was preceded in point of time by circlet of gold, 
choicely bejeweled. It was made for the Queen in 1858, and con¬ 
sists wholly of diamonds, nearly all of them crown jewels. 

It was this diadem which was used on the occasion of the mar¬ 
riage of the PRINCESS ROYAL. 

There is yet a third crown, known as the state crown, which 
was used on all occasions when the Queen visited the House of 
Lords. It is kept in the Tower of London and on such occasions 
was taken out of the regalia room and was borne before the 
Queen on a cushion. 

Except for this purpose the CROWN has only left the tower on 
two occasions during the long reign of Victoria, and these two 
times only that the ermine might be motified and some jewels 
tightened. 

The crown has never been actually worn by the Queen at any 
function since her coronation, sixty years before this memorable 
anniversary. 

The estimated VALUE of this state crown is 225,000 pounds; 
one half this value is credited to two stones, the ruby which 
belonged to Edward, the Black Prince, and the large sapphire 
purchased by George IV. The remaining half of the value is 
found in 3091. 

Crowns and jewels are well, but the VALUE of these three 
crowns and all of the crowns of the Orient added are of finite 
value; only one crown is eternal and infinite in value. 


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pottle III 

Amos 4. 12.—Prepare to meet thy God. 

Eph. 5. 16.—Buying up the opportunity. 

Eph. 6. 12.—We fight against principalities and powers. 

Matt. 24. 44,—Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as you 
think not. 


pottle U2 

Rev. 3. 11.—Hold fast; that no one take thy crown. 
Eccl. 5. 15.—Naked shall he go again as he came. 

Rom. 3. 22.—There is no difference, for all have sinned. 
1 Cor. 9. 25.—To obtain a corruptible crown. 

Rev. 2. 10.—I will give thee the crown of life. 


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Pottle 113 

A few years ago it was the regular business of some men to 
wipe all ENGINES, keep them free from oil and dust. 

Later on it was discovered that a dirty engine did as good work 
as a CLEAN one, so the freight engines were not wiped. An 
unexpected thing happened: the engineers became CARELESS. 

The engine-cleaners had to be restored, as the men needed the 
INFLUENCE of CLEANLINESS. Uncleanness never pays. The 
writer has often been amazed at farmers who leave their ma¬ 
chinery in the open field from one season to another, claiming 
exposure does not hurt the machine. It may not, but it will hurt 
every man and boy on the farm. 

Care, cleanliness, thrift, attention to LITTLE things cannot be 
underestimated in CHARACTER building. 

Pottle U4 

John Robertson, the great Scotch minister, tells of an eloquent 
professor in college, so learned in Hebrew and philosophy that 
he was called Rabbi Duncan. 

A student was reading one day the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah 
and stumbling along through the Hebrew, he read: 

“He was WOUNDED for our transgressions; he was bruised 
for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; 
and with His STRIPES we are HEALED. 

“All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned every¬ 
one to his own way; and the lord hath laid on him the iniquity 
of us all. 

“He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his 
mouth; he is brought as a LAMB to the slaughter, and as a 
sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.” 

The student ends, but something noticeable has come over 
Rabbi Duncan. The students see him trying to speak, but he 
cannot; at last he puts his head on the Hebrew Bible and a SOB 
escapes him. Looking up at length, with a broken voice, he 
said: “Gentlemen, do you know what this is? Do you know 
what Jesus is doing here? It is DAMNATION, and damnation 
taken by LOVE.” 

Pottle 115 

The Botanical Gardens of Rio de Janeiro derive their chief 
glory from the great avenue of palms which adds so much of 
beauty to the gardens. They are on level ground and surrounded 
by the wildest mountain scenery. Directly facing the entrance 
gate is the avenue of royal palms and crossing this at right angles 
is another avenue not quite so long, but equally as fine. 

The two avenues make a beautifully perfect CROSS, the trees 
reaching a height of eighty feet and meeting overhead form a 
living gallery more BEAUTIFUL than can be imagined. The 
main avenue consists of 150 trees placed 30 feet apart, inclosing 
a path twenty feet wide, and so extending almost a mile. 

God emphasizes both in nature and in revelation the importance 
of beauty. 


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Pottle 113 

1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart. 

2 Cor. 7. 1.—From filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 

2 Pet. 1. 19.—A lamp shining in a squalid place. 

Heb. 10. 22.—Having our bodies washed with pure water. 
Zech. 14. 1.—A fountain open for sin and uncleanness. 

Psa. 65. 9.—The river of God is full of water. 


pottle 114 

Num. 29. 11.—The sin offering of atonement. 

Psa. 8. 4.—What is man that thou art mindful of him. 
Prov. 15. 33.—Before honor goeth humility. 

Song 5. 10.—Chiefest among ten thousand. 

Isa. 53. 5.—And with his stripes we are healed. 

Zech. 14. 1.—A fountain opened for sin. 

John 19. 5.—Behold the man. 


Pottle 115 

Rom. 1. 20.—Even his eternal power and Godhead. 

1 Kings 7. 22.—Upon the top of the pillars was lily-work. 

2 Cor. 4. 18.—The things seen are temporal. 

Psa. 92. 12.—The righteous shall flourish as a palm tree. 


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Pottle 116 

In the city of Philadelphia there is today a large collection of 
antique engraved gems and tablets which cost nearly $600,000 
and gives to the Free Museum of Science and Art of the Univer¬ 
sity of Pennsylvania much of its importance, but which is 
nevertheless declared to be almost entirely spurious specimens, 
none of which should have deceived a competent buyer. 

It is the famous Maxwell-Sommerville collection of antique 
engraved gems. Before 1891 it was exhibited in the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art, in New York city, and was received with great 
enthusiasm. 

Although it is the laughing stock of the antiquarian world, 
great numbers of pupils from schools and students from colleges 
still pass by this mixture of rarities and RUBBISH in the 
QUAKER city with a sort of veneration. 

It is the story woven about the pathetic figure of an old gentle¬ 
man with a hobby; it reveals the system of pitfalls warily laid 
for the American collector, and throws an amusing and ironical 
light upon some items of higher education. 

In early life Professor Sommerville was a book publisher with 
a hobby for glyptology; he accumulated a fortune and then 
traveled the world in SEARCH of specimens accounted by him 
as great TREASURES. 

In 1894 he was appointed professor of glyptology in the Uni¬ 
versity of Pennsylvania, and the collection became the possession 
of the University of Pennsylvania in 1904. 

A cameo known as “The Triumph of Constantine,” supposedly 
“engraved when Constantine held the Roman Empire in Byzantia.” 
This piece, now pronounced a base fraud, cost the sum of $33,500. 

The collection was INSPECTED in 1904 by Dr. A. Furtwangler, 
of Munich, recognized as the highest authority on glyptology in 
the world, and the following sentence is expressive of his in¬ 
spection: “The engraved gems in the collection of Maxwell 
Sommerville are chiefly forgeries.” 

This is a fair illustration of how men may be duped in the 
financial world, even though they have a fair measure of 
knowledge. 

It illustrates also in a startling manner the sort of RELIGION 
that is found in possession of many and accounted as the result 
of much wisdom, a sort of “TRIUMPHAL CONSTANTINE,” but 
on examination it is found to be rubbish. 


pottle 117 

A UNITARIAN preacher once said to NEWTON: “Sir, I have 
collated every word in the Hebrew SCRIPTURES seventeen times, 
and it is very strange if the doctrine of the atonement which you 
hold should not have been found by me.” 

Newton’s answer is worth remembering. He said: “I am not 
surprised at this. I went once to light my candle with the 
extinguisher on it.” 


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Pottle 116 

Matt. 24. 24.—Deceive, if it were possible, the elect. 

2 John 1. 7.—Many deceivers are entered into the world. 

2 Tim. 3. 13.—Evil men and seducers wax worse and worse. 

2 Thes. 2. 10.—With all deceivableness. 

Gal. 5. 7.—Ye did run well, who ditched you? 

2 Cor. 11. 14.—Satan fashioneth himself as an angel of light. 
Eccl. 12. 14.—Every work into judgment with every secret 
thing. 

Psa. 55. 21.—But his heart was war. 


pottle 117 

Exod. 30. 12.—Every man a ransom for his soul, rich and poor. 
Num. 29. 11.—The sin offering of atonement. 

2 Chron. 29. 27.—When the burnt offering began, the song began. 
Isa. 53. 5.—And with his stripes we are healed. 

Matt. 20. 28.—To minister and to give his life a ransom. 

Heb. 9. 22.—Without blood is no remission. 


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Pottle 118 

RUSKIN has said: “There is no MUSIC in a REST, but there 
is the making of music in it.” 

In our whole life melody, the music is broken off here and 
there by rests, and we foolishly chafe under the silence and the 
seeming break-off in our lives. 

God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, 
frustrated efforts, unexpected pauses in the hymn of your LIFE 
and you lament that your voice must be silent and your part 
missing in the music which goes up to the ear of the Creator. 

But not without design does God appoint the note and rest. 
With us, as with the one who sings, the best breath and its best 
oxygen with its best life becomes ours. 


bottle no 

Samuel Hebitch, “the master fisher of men” in India, entered 
an English officer’s tent and asked him to read the first two 
verses of Genesis. 

The officer took down his unused Bible and read the verses. 
Then Hebitch knelt and prayed. 

The next day he returned, made the same request, offered the 
same prayer, and left without another word. 

After the strange man had left the officer began to feel that his 
LIFE was truly “without form and VOID, and DARKNESS was 
upon the face of the deep.” 

The third day Hebitch came in and said: “Now read the first 
three verses of Genesis,” and as the officer read, “God said, Let 
there be LIGHT,” the light of SALVATION came into the 
officer’s life, and he began to rejoice. 

What wonderful measures of formless darkness are found in 
the life of those to whom God’s word has not yet come. 


Pottle 120 

The saintly A. J. Garden, as he lay in the chamber in West 
Brookline Street, Boston, looked up and with one radiant burst 
of JOY, cried, “Victory! VICTORY!” and so he went home. 

Moody’s last words are historic. The golden LADDER came 
to his PILLOW as he lay waiting the call and in an almost 
ecstasy of happiness he cried, “Earth is receding and HEAVEN 
is opening.” 

Grace for living belongs to the days of life just as certainly as 
the grace for dying belongs to the time of death. 


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Eccl. 3. 7.—A time to keep silence. 

Isa. 46. 10.—Be still and know. 

Mark 6. 31.—Leisure to eat. 


pottle 119 

Gen. 1. 1.—In the beginning God created. 

Psa. 40. 2.—Out of a pit of tumult. 

Prov. 25. 11.—A word fitly spoken is apples of gold. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and is profitable. 
2 Cor. 12. 14.—The third time I am ready to come. 


pottle 120 

Psa. 23. 4.—Through the valley of the shadow of death. 
Eccl. 3. 2.—A time to die. 

1 Cor. 15. 57.—Thanks to God, who giveth us the victory. 

2 Tim. 4. 6.—For I am now ready to be offered. 


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Mr. Lyall, the evangelist, speaks of an occurrence in the north 
of Ireland, while he was conducting services in one of the Pres¬ 
byterian Churches. On the first Sunday night of the mission a 
tall, fine-looking, elderly man came up and said: “Mr. Lyall, I 
would like to have a talk with you.” We went apart and 
he began the interview by saying that he was an employer of 
labor in this city, had hundreds of men and women on the pay 
roll, and had a measure of INFLUENCE in the City. 

“But that is not what I wanted to talk about. It is concerning 
my spiritual condition,” and he went on to say something like 
this: “Three years ago I was deeply CONVINCED of my need of 
Jesus Christ. One night I was in my room alone with God—an 
unsaved man. I was conscious of the Divine presence. I knew 
that if I yielded to him then I would be SAVED. I was just on 
the threshold of the kingdom, but I began to count the COST. 

“I deliberately and willfully got up from my knees and walked 
out of the room. 

“Later they were appointing elders in the church, and the 
pastor of the church said the people were very anxious to have me 
for one of their elders. I at first refused, saying an unsaved man 
had no business to be an elder in any church. Because of his per¬ 
suasion, I finally consented. 

“About a year later the spirit of God came to me again, and I 
felt that he was giving me another chance, but the DEVIL came 
and whispered, ‘Don’t make a fool of yourself. You are an elder 
of the church. Everybody believes you are a CONVERTED man; 
the people will laugh at you.’ I yielded to the subtle temptation 
and once again RESISTED the Holy Ghost.” 

Then he added, with a strange look in his eyes, that almost 
froze my blood: “Mr. Lyall, listen. Standing before you tonight 
in this vestry is a LOST soul. I believe that I am as much lost 
tonight as I ever will be in HELL, only I have not got there. I 
have walked the streets night after night—I have not slept a 
whole night for months—I would have plunged myself into the 
Belfast Loch before this were it not for what lies beyond. I did 
not come to you for help. I am beyond all human HELP and 
Divine help, too. I want you to tell my story wherever you go, 
that men and women may be WARNED against the SIN of 
resisting the Holy Ghost.” And he went out from the building. 

Pottle 122 

During the revival services in a certain place might be seen a 
man with his finger on a text, pointing a soul to his Master. 
Speaking to him you would recognize him as the soul-winner 
called Tommy the Stutterer. 

The minister asked him one day: “Tommy, how do you manage? 
You can’t speak plainly, and yet you lead so many to Christ. 
How is it?” He looked into the questioner’s face and said: 
“Doc-doctor, I give ’em the Bi-bi-ble. That don’t stutt-tut-ter.” 

Some other soul-winners might win more souls if they were 
“STUTTERERS,” and gave them the Bible that doesn’t stutter. 


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Gen. 4. 16.—And Cain went out, and dwelt in the land of 
wandering. 

Num. 14. 25.—Tomorrow get you into the wilderness. 

1 Kings 19. 19.—Plowman Elisha, with twelve yoke before him. 
Jer. 8. 20.—The harvest is past, the summer is ended. 

Hos. 4. 17.—Joined to idols, let them alone. 

Amos 4. 12.—Prepare to meet thy God. 

1 Thes. 5. 19.—Quench not the spirit. 

Gen. 6. 3.—My Spirit shall not always strive with man. 


Pottle 122 

2 Pet. 3. 16.—Some things hard to be understood. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All Scripture is inspired and is profitable. 

2 Cor. 10. 10.—His presence weak and his speech contemptible. 
1 Cor. 1. 27.—God hath chosen the weak things. 

Isa. 35. 8.—The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err 
therein. 


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A man came into my room the other day, writes the Rev. J. H. 
Ritson, a missionary. I thought he was a BEGGAR. He pulled 
out a bit of crumpled paper and put it down on my desk. It 
was a bank note for 1,000 pounds sterling. 

Said he: “I am seventy-three years old and I have walked here 
from North London and am going to walk back to SAVE the 
railway fare.” 

It has often been said that the true way of GIVING is to give 
until it COSTS. We may not all agree about the saving of the 
railway fare, but we may well follow the thought of the spirit of 
this splendid example. 


Rattle 124 

Beautifully bosomed in the Cumberland hills of England lies 
Thirlmere Lake; around it are the hills and towns; beyond these 
hillsides. From hills and mountains farms, high up in the sum¬ 
mits, the little rivulets and streamlets pour their waters down 
into the lake. 

Ninety miles away lies the great city of Manchester, busy and 
black and big. Through conduits and pipes, in valleys and along 
the hills for ninety miles the clear, LIFE-GIVING WATER of 
Thirlmere Lake is carried, and then by another system of pipe 
and conduit it is distributed to all the THIRSTY people of that 
great city. 

So does God furnish from afar and from unexpected, UNSEEN 
SOURCE drafts that refresh our souls. 

Trust God, O man, to find a way from FOUNTAIN to thy 
thirsty soul in any time of need. 

pottle 125 

Lord, let me be the torch that springs to LIGHT 
And lives its LIFE in one exultant flame, 

A blaze of living fire against the NIGHT, 

Although it drop to darkness without FAME. 

For I have watched the smouldering, LUKE-WARM soul, 
Choked in the ashes that itself hath made, 

Despised the grudging measures of its dole, 

And turned from it bewildered and afraid. 

Light me with light of love, this my desire, 

With light of love I pray! Then let me burn 
My little moment in pulsating FIRE, 

And so perform my mission in my turn. 

Let me be LIGHT-HOUSE for some rock or reef, 

SHINING afar to light a soul’s return, 

That it be saved from shipwreck, loss, and grief: 

Make me thy TORCH, O Lord, to brightly burn! 


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Heb. 6. 1.—Let us press on unto full growth. 

2 Tim. 2. 3.—Endure hardness as a good soldier. 

2 Sam. 24. 24.—I will not offer that which cost me nothing. 
Luke 21. 3.—She of her penury cast in more. 

Prov. 11. 25.—The liberal soul shall be made fat. 


Pottle 124 

Psa. 65. 9.—The river of God is full of water. 

Isa. 55. 1.—Ho! everyone that thirsteth, come. 

John 4. 9.—How is it that thou asketh drink of me? 

John 7. 37.—If any man thirst, let him come unto me and 
drink. 

Heb. 10. 22.—Having our bodies washed with pure water. 

Zech. 14. 1.—A fountain opened for sin and uncleanness. 


Pottle 125 

Rev. 3. 16.—So, because thou art luke-warm I will spew thee 
out. 

3 John 1. 9.—Diotrephes, who loveth the preeminence. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the SPIRIT is love (life-reach). 

Matt. 5. 14.—Ye are the light of the world. 

Matt. 11. 12.—The enthusiastic take it by snatching. 


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Pottle 126 

Once when Sir Michael Costa was conducting a REHEARSAL, 
with a great number of performers, including hundreds of voices, 
as the mighty chorus rang out in union with the thunder of the 
organ and the roll of drums and ringing horns and cymbals 
clashing, some one man who played the piccolo, far away in some 
corner, said within himself: “In all this din it matters not what 
I do,” and so he ceased to play. 

Suddenly the great conductor stopped, flung up his hands—and 
all was still—and then he cried out to the ONE man in the corner, 
where is the piccolo! 

The quick ear MISSED it and to him there was a discord, 
because it failed to take its part. 

O soul, do thou thy part with all thy MIGHT! LITTLE thou 
mayest be, insignificant and HIDDEN, thou mayest think thyself, 
and yet God seeks thy praise. He listens for it and all the 
music of his great universe is richer and sweeter because thou 
givest THANKS. 


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In certain parts of the ALPS where the people live scattered 
about as SHEPHERDS, a beautiful and touching custom prevails 
which softens somewhat the dreary loneliness of their dreary, 
solitary lives. 

Just as the sun leaves the valleys and the last rays touch, the 
snow-capped summits, the SHEPHERD whose hut is farthest 
up the peak takes his ALPINE horn and with trumpet voice, 
cries: “Praise the Lord!” Instantly all the other shepherds, 
standing at the threshold of their cabins, repeat, one after 
another, the same appeal, until the echo resounds far and wide, 
from peak to peak, “Praise the Lord!” 

A solemn silence follows the last note and each shepherd 
KNEELS bare-headed, in deepest REVERENCE and PRAYER. 
Later on, when night envelops the mountains, the horn is heard 
again. “Good-night!” is heard far and near and the shepherds 
peacefully retire to rest as they rest who praise the Lord. 


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The SWORD of HONOR voted to Rear-Admiral DEWEY, the 
naval HERO of Manila, by joint resolution of Congress, in June, 
was made by Tiffany & Co., of New York. It has been placed on 
exhibition at the office of the Secretary of the Navy. 

It is one of the finest specimens of the swordmaker’s art ever 
seen in this country; with the exception of the steel blade and the 
body metal of the scabbard the weapon is composed of 22-karat 
gold. 

Yet he is more a hero who wields the sword of the Spirit to 
save his fellow-men than the Admiral who, with a steel-blade 
sword, helps to SAVE his country. 


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Gen. 19. 20.—Is^ it not a little one? 

Rom. 14. 7.—None of us liveth to himself. 
Luke 12. 7.—More value than many sparrows. 
John 6. 11.—And Jesus took the loaves. 


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Psa. 95. 6.—Let us kneel before Jehovah, our maker. 

Luke 4. 16.—As his custom was. 

Eph. 5. 20.—Giving thanks always for all things. 

Psa. 18. 49.—I will give thanks unto thee among the nations. 


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Isa. 2. 4.—Their swords into plowshares. 

2 Pet. 1. 5.—Add in your faith, valor. 

Rev. 2. 10.—I will give a crown of life. 

2 Tim. 2. 3.—Endure hardness as a good soldier. 
2 Tim. 4. 7.—I have fought a good fight. 


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The whitest expanse of newly-fallen SNOW contains a large 
amount of DIRT, as may be proved by melting a quantity of it. 

The air is wonderfully pure and clear after a snowfall, because 
the IMPURITIES have been removed and now are found in the 
snow. The mechanism of this purification is found in The 
Lancet, of London: “A fall of snow has a purifying effect upon the 
air equal to, if indeed not greater than, a storm of rain. The 
action as regards suspended impurities may be compared to the 
■clarifying effect of a fine, insoluble powder which, when thrown 
into impure water, gradually settles, carrying with it the 
impurities. 

Tradition has it that after a fall of snow men feel stronger, 
owing to the exhilarating effect of the snow-swept air and apart 
from the removal of impurities by snow, there is reason to believe 
that the LIFE qualities of air are intensified by some unobserved 
action of the snow on the oxygen of the air, forming, perhaps, 
ozone or oxygenated water. 

In his article the writer demonstrates the difference between 
the atmospheric POLLUTION of London and a Kentish suburb 
twelve miles south, and though the London atmosphere before 
the snow was polluted hundreds of fold more than its Kentish 
suburb, after the snow the atmospheres were equally pure. 

Among other reasons God doubtless appointed the snow even 
as the cold to be a purifier of atmospheres for the life of men. 

But a vastly more important purifier is appointed for the at¬ 
mospheres of life itself that need a snowfall from God for 
cleansing that we may have the ozone of God’s cleansed air and 
be as those who are “washed in snow-water.” 

Lives vastly differ, like the atmospheres of London and its 
Kentish suburb, but after the snowfall comes the “London life” 
is like the “suburb life.” 

And when the final snowfall comes the lives will be alike, and 
all IMPURITIES be absent. 

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Three INDIANS in the vicinity of Green Bay once became 
converts to the TEMPERANCE cause, although previously given 
to much DRINK. 

Some white men formed the resolution of trying their Indian 
SINCERITY. 

They placed a canteen of whiskey in their path and hid them¬ 
selves in the bushes to observe the motions of the red men. 

The first saw the flask in the pathway and with an “UGH!” 
made a high step, passed on. 

The second laughed, saying: “Me know you,” and walked 
around the flask. 

The last one drew his tomahawk and dashed the canteen to 
pieces, saying “UGH! You conquer me—now I CONQUER you.” 

There are three ways in which sin may be treated; the only 
safe way is its destruction. A flask undrunk by you and left 
unbroken may be the ruin of another life. 


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Lev. 13. 45.—And he shall cry: “Unclean, unclean!” 

2 Sam. 9. 12.—Mephibosheth eateth as one of the king’s sons. 
Psa. 17. 15.—I shall be satisfied when I awake. 

Isa. 1. 18.—Although your sins he as scarlet. 


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2 Kings 13. 19.—Thou shouldst have smitten five or six times. 
Psa. 119. 110.—The wicked have laid a snare for me. 

Prov. 16. 32.—He that ruleth his own spirit is greater. 

Prov. 23. 34.—As one upon the top of a mast. 

Matt. 5. 25.—Agree with thine adversary. 

Rev. 3. 16.—Because thou art lukewarm. 


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The story is told of a woman who had a rare rosebush. She 
worked over it for weeks, but saw no RESULT of her labor. 

One day she observed a crevice in the wall near the bush and 
noticed a small shoot of the rosebush running through the crevice. 
She went to the other side of the wall and there she found her 
rose blooming in splendid beauty and her labor REWARDED. 

Some of us have to work year after year, seeing little, if any 
result, and the message comes not only from this rosebush but 
from God, WORK on. Do not be DISCOURAGED. Your work is 
blooming on the other side of the WALL. There is no such thing 
as wasted time or labor in the service of God. 

Pottle 132 

Rev. Henry Bromley, a city missionary in Brooklyn, New York, 
was one day passing through a dark hall in a tenement house. 
He saw through a broken door a woman and three children 
sitting at a bare table on which there was only a loaf of BREAD. 

He paused an instant, arrested by the indications of refinement. 
While he tarried they all bowed their heads and repeated in 
concert: 

“God bless our going out, nor less 

Our coming in, and make them sure. 

God bless our daily bread and bless 
Whate’er we do, whate’er endure; 

In death unto His peace awake us, 

And heirs of His salvation make us.” 

A few hours later at a supper in the conference room of the 
church he was called upon to ask a BLESSING. With the scene 
in the chamber of poverty fresh in his mind he repeated Prince 
Albert’s translation of the German hymn, the verse the poor 
woman and her children had spoken over the half-dime loaf; and 
afterwards he related the incident. A stranger who had come to 
the conference room with a business acquaintance by what seemed 
the merest chance, could not keep silent. 

He inquired if the family lived far away. Being answered that 
they did not, he requested that they might go at once and see them. 

He explained: “Long ago in a country home in Scotland my 
grandmother taught my sister and myself to repeat that grace. 
The grandmother died, the sister married and went I know not 
where. It is years now since I lost sight of her, but always in 
my home that grace is said, and I feel that if my sister is living 
it is said in her home, too.” 

It was one of the remarkable instances of God’s GUIDING hand. 
These two were the brother and sister. The woman had passed 
from a decent home to destitution in a garret. 

For a time she ceased to say this grace TAUGHT her by her 
grandmother, but the words, “Whate’er we do, whate’er endure,” 
drew her back into the CUSTOM of early years. 

God moves in a mysterous way, and with whatever form of 
THANKS we remember His benefits, there is a blessing certain. 


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Gen. 49. 22.—His branches run over the wall. 

Ruth 1. 20.—Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara. 

1 Cor. 15. 58.—Always abounding in the work—for as much as. 
Gal. 6. 9.—In due season ye shall reap, if. 


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John 6. 11.—Jesus took the loaves, and when he had blessed 
them. 

2 Cor. 9. 8.—God is able to make all things abound. 

Psa. 55. 17.—Evening and at morning and at noonday. 

Prov. 22. 6.—Train up a child—he will not depart. 

Luke 1. 13.—Zacharias—Jehovah remembers. 

Eph. 5. 20.—Giving thanks always for all things. 


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Off the coast of New South Wales a terrific STORM was raging. 
Within sight of land a vessel struck upon a rock and was certain 
soon to sink. No lifeboat could reach them from the land—no 
human being in such a storm could swim and reach the shore. 

In the hold of the vessel were a number of pigs. The captain 
ordered ropes secured to them, then they were thrown overboard. 

They at once swam to the shore, where men seized the ropes 
attached to them. A line of communication was thus established, 
and every one of the endangered crew was saved. 

The life-line bearers were only PIGS, seeking their own lives, 
but they brought together the ones who were about to PERISH 
and the ones who were so EAGER to SAVE. 

It is the “ROPE” that is important and God oftentimes demon¬ 
strates that the bearer of it may be some unknown, unlettered 
soul who only seeks to save. 

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RUSKIN says that many people read the BIBLE in the same 
way that the HEDGEHOGS were once supposed to eat grapes. 
They rolled themselves over the grapes, so it used to be thought, 
and what fruit stuck to their spines they carried off and ate. 

So your hedgehoggy Bible reader rolls himself over his Bible 
and declares that whatever sticks to his own spines is 
SCRIPTURE, and that nothing else is. 

Read in this way, the Bible can be made to fit any form of 
DOCTRINE and any fashion of LIFE. 

Such readers, if they knew, are only so many Ingersolls, 
modern “church INFIDELS.” 

Pottle 135 

Two men met on the DIKES that surround the city of New 
Orleans during the great flood when the city seemed doomed. 

The water from the Mississippi on the one side, and from the 
Gulf on the other, threatened the city. 

The one man said to the other: “What would you do for this 
city if you had the strength and money?” The question sur¬ 
prised the one who was addressed, and he answered, hastily: 
“What would you do? You seem to have been thinking about the 
matter.” “Oh,” said the first man, “I would, if I had the money 
and the power, build these dikes so wide and so high that no 
FLOOD could endanger the city.” 

Said the second man: “I would not do that, but I would get 
my arms beneath the city and LIFT it above the dikes, so that no 
FLOOD could endanger it.” 

No life can be said to be SAFE, however diked about, as long 
as it is on the sin-level, any more than a city can be said to be 
really safe when it is not above the sea level. 

To be absolutely SAFE, the life must be lifted above the 
TIDES of SIN. This is God’s plan and the everlasting ARMS 
are sufficient to the task. 


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John 6. 11.—And Jesus took the loaves. 

1 Cor. 1. 27.—The things that are despised hath God chosen. 

2 Cor. 10. 10.—His presence weak, and his speech contemptible. 


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Mark 4. 24.—He saith unto them, “Take heed what ye hear.” 
/ John 6. 66.—Upon this, many of his disciples went back. 
John 17. 17.—Thy word is truth. 

1 Cor. 1. 20.—Where is the joint-seeker of this world? 

Eph. 4. 14.—Carried about by every wind of doctrine. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and is profitable. 

Rev. 22. 18.—If any man add:—if any man take away. 


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Deut. 33. 12.—Dwell in safety—dwell between his shoulders. 
Psa. 40. 2.—Out of the pit of tumult. 

Phil. 3. 20.—Our citizenship is in heaven. £ 

1 Thes. 5. 11.—And build each other up. 


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Dr. Watkinson tells in the following words about his visit to 
South Africa. He says: “I went to South Africa and visited 
Johannesburg. There I visited one of the greatest gold mines in 
the world. 

“I saw the ponderous machinery, stamps and mills and streams 
of water, was almost deafened by the thunderous roar, but I 
saw no atom or gleam of gold. I mentioned the fact to the 
superintendent who had led me through the works. Gazing 
intently at a stream of water running through a sluice he sud¬ 
denly dipped his finger into it and exclaimed: ‘There goes a bit/ 
but it was as invisible to me as GOLD upon the Collection plate, 
and so I went away from that great mine and SAW no particle 
of the PRECIOUS metal; when we landed at Liverpool they took 
out more than three million dollars in gold from that very mine. 

“It was INVISIBLE to me at Johannesburg, but its massive, 
shining bars were easily seen in Liverpool. 

“Not only was that gold in Johannesburg, but it was the real 
power back of all the machinery, though I saw it not.” 

So the spiritual may be HIDDEN under the processes of earth. 
The results that we see may lie far back in the currents of 
force distant as far as Liverpool from South Africa. 

But the day is coming when all shall be made plain when we 
land on the eternal shore. We can well afford to toil on here, 
though much of what is promised is veiled and seemingly absent, 
the result is certain, the reward eternal and sure. 

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It is strange to read that VESUVIUS is now blooming like a 
garden, the ASHES being made into a very rich fertilizer by the 
addition of lime or soda. In September, 1906, it is a mountain 
of death, its inhabitants fleeing from it in terror and its vegeta¬ 
tion destroyed under the hot ashes. 

But after the short time of three months the rains have 
watered the ashes, man has fertilized them and the volcano has 
become a MOUNTAIN of life, robed in green and decked with 
blossoms far towards its top. 

Nature cannot endure desolation and DEATH, but its inner 
principle and instinct is life. It is saturated with curative 
strength—under its healing touch the volcano ash-heap is 
speedily covered with verdure and fringed with FLOWERS. 

What man has done with the help of God through God’s Nature 
at Vesuvius thou mayest do for some Vesuvius-life. The 
CROSS has healing virtue for all human GUILT, and even a 
life that has been burned out with Sl^N and is only an ash heap, 
can yet be made to BLOOM again. 

Man only added lime to the desolations of Vesuvius and God 
did all the rest. 

It is not much we do or can do for the RECLAIMING of a life, 
but when we have done our little part God is to do whatever may 
be necessary to change desolations into GARDENS of flowers and 
fruit. 


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Eccl. 12. 14.—Every work into judgment with every secret 
thing. 

1 Cor. 2. 14.—They are spiritually discerned. 

2 Cor. 4. 18.—The things seen are temporal. 

1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart (ornaments). 

1 Cor. 13. 12.—Now we see through a glass darkly, but then. 


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Gen. 4. 9.—Am I my brother’s keeper? 

Exod. 4. 2.—What is that in thy hand? 

2 Sam. 9. 12.—Mephibosheth eateth as one of the king’s sons. 
2 Kings 6. 6.—The iron did swim. 

Psa. 42. 11.—Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him. 
Prov. 27. 17.—So a man shapeth the countenance of a friend. 
Isa. 27. 6.—Fill the face of the world with fruit. 


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When the Carthaginian troops were investing Rome the spot 
outside the wall was up for sale at auction in the forum. On 
that ground at the time stood the tent of Hannibal, the dread 
invader. 

After a spirited competition the ground was knocked down to 
a citizen who bid for it a large sum of money. 

He and the other bidders had FAITH in the triumph of their 
armies, although the FOE was at the gates. 

Such faith ought every Christian to have in the redemption of 
this world to Christ. Faith in the triumph of his armies, even 
though at times the besieging host appears fearless at the very 
gates. 


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Two sailors VENTURED far out on the over-hanging precipice 
which is on one of the islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. 

Their captain saw the DANGER they were in and warned them 
of it. One of them shouted back: “No danger, captain, no 
danger!” and as he shouted he stamped heavily on the ground, 
as if to say, “See, it is all solid here.” 

In an instant the TREACHEROUS spot gave way and the 
sincere but DECEIVED men were launched into eternity. 

Sincerity is no guarantee of SAFETY. It is very unsafe to 
believe an untruth. What a man believes makes a vast difference. 


Pottle 140 

Mr. Moody tells of his little boy who called to him one day: 
“Papa, I want a drink,” and then went on with his play. The 
father thoughtlessly kept on with his reading. Soon the child 
spoke again: “Papa, I want a drink,” but he still kept on un¬ 
concernedly with his PLAY and Mr. Moody continued to read. 

Presently the boy left his PLAY, came and took hold of his 
father’s knee and said earnestly: "Papa, I am THIRSTY. I 
must have a DRINK.” As soon as I saw that the child meant 
what he said I granted his request SPEEDILY. 

When a man leaves his toys or his IDOLS of PLEASURES or 
RICHES he is in earnest and will get of God all that he asks 
and all that he needs. 


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Gen. 50. 24.—I die, but God will surely visit you. 

Josh. 2. 21.—She wove the scarlet line in the window. 
Ruth 1. 20.—Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara. 

Isa. 54. 17.—No weapon against thee shall prosper. 
Ezek. 37. 3.—Can these bones live? 

Matt. 16. 18.—The gates of Hades shall not prevail. 

1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou as an engraver in faith. 

Heb. 11. 1.—Faith is assurance and conviction. 


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Mark 4. 24.—He saith unto them, take heed what ye hear. 

2 Chron. 18. 7.—I hate him for he prophesied evil. 

Psa. 19. 13.—Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sin. 

1 Cor. 10. 12.—Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall. 
Eph. 4. 14.—Carried about by every wind of doctrine. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and profitable. 

Rev. 22. 18.—If any man shall add:—if any man shall take 
away. 


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Luke 11. 9.—Keep asking and ye shall receive. 

2 Kings 2. 10.—Determine to (time of) asking:—if thou see me. 
Gen. 32. 26.—I will not let thee go except thou bless me. 

Luke 11. 8.—Because of his importunity, he will rise and give 
him. 


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In an editorial in Engineering, of London, September, 1906, an 
account is given of the proposed RECLAIMING of the Zuyder 
Zee. 

The Zuyder Zee is nearly one sixth as large as the whole of 
Holland. The present Zuyder Zee is the outcome of floods. The 
North Sea, by degrees, has SWAMPED the whole district. It has 
long been the ambition of the Dutch to restore this country to its 
original size. 

The area of Holland is about ten thousand square miles. The 
area of the Zuyder Zee about fifteen hundred square miles, or one 
million acres. The depth of water varies from eleven to twenty 
feet. The first and most vital part of the work is the construction 
of a dam twenty miles long in North Holland. This construction 
will require eight years of time. The breadth of this dam is to 
be thirty feet, and considering the present risk of floods and 
power of breakers, it will be a very difficult task. Large canals 
will be made inside of this area; according to present calculation 
it will take twenty-four years for this land to be rescued from its 
present swamp condition. 

The work must be done piece by piece, it not being considered 
advisable to attempt the whole area at once. After vegetation 
covers one part another part is to be reclaimed. 

The COST of this great undertaking is calculated at about 
$65,000,000, but in spite of such heavy expenditure the great 
scheme will be worth while, for nearly one million acres of now 
worthless land will be made beautiful and productive for decades 
or centuries. 

What was not prevented years ago at a cost of hundreds of 
dollars must be remedied now at a cost of millions. 

This swampy part of Holland is like many a life that was once 
solid ground and now is swamped. 

Whether it be the result of reckless life of NEGLIGENCE it 
remains equally certain that a supreme effort alone will restore 
the life to its original condition of beauty or of utility. 

At whatever expense of EFFORT the life RECLAIMED will 
more than repay such effort. 


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In the history of Sparta we have record of a royal prince im¬ 
prisoned in the stocks, preparatory to his execution. In the dark¬ 
ness of the night preceding the day set for execution, he sought 
to extricate himself and ESCAPE. 

His leg was fast, but with a blow of his ax he severed it and 
crawled away to where his friends lay in hiding. 

It was the PRICE of FREEDOM and he paid it gladly to escape 
the doom that hung over his life. 

The SIN that stands betwen us and Jesus Christ must be 
SACRIFICED. The FOOT or HAND or EYE may be gladly given 
up if the life is by such sacrifice made FREE. 


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Josh. 13. 1.—Very much land to be possessed. 

Isa. 27. 6.—Filled the face of the world with fruit. 

Isa. 54. 2.—Lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes. 
John 11. 39.—By this time he stinketh. 

Rom. 15. 28.—I will come by you into Spain. 


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Exod. 4. 2.—What is that in thy hand? 

Mark 9. 45.—If thy foot offend thee, cut it off. 

Matt. 5. 25.—Agree with thine adversary quickly. 

Acts 24. 25.—Felix trembled and said, Go thy way for this 
time. 

1 Cor. 3. 15.—Saved yet so as by fire. 

Job 19. 20.—Escaped with the skin of my teeth. 

Phil. 3. 7.—These I counted loss for Christ. 


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Not many years ago a vessel of the White Star Line went to 
pieces on a rock off the coast of Newfoundland and 500 persons 
went down to a watery grave. A young man having a large 
business in Detroit was on board the vessel. 

Soon after it went down a dispatch came to Detroit saying that 
he was LOST. The business was suspended; the store closed up. 
Relatives and friends were mourning his death. 

A few hours after another dispatch came. It contained one 
word, “SAVED,” with the young man’s name signed below it. 

That dispatch they framed and put in his office. If you go 
into that man’s office now to do business with him you may see 
that dispatch, “Saved,” hanging upon the wall. These two 
dispatches had vastly different effect, because they were vastly 
different. The difference between LOST and SAVED is the 
difference between Hell and Heaven. The one is occasion for 
great grief; the other, occasion for great gratitude. 

Pottle 144 

Robert W. Weir, the artist, was selected to paint a picture for 
the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. He chose for his 
subject, “THE EMBARCATION OF THE PILGRIMS.” 

The picture was completed. He called his artist friends to 
speak their criticism! Only one criticism was offered, “The 
FACES were expressionless,” all else was excellent. 

Mr. Weir immediately began a STUDY of the lives of the 
PILGRIMS, He pored over those Christian biographies, how 
they braved the ocean dangers, a wintry wilderness, absence from 
native land that they might worship God. 

He took up his brush again and painted the picture which adorns 
the rotunda of the Capitol, which is one of America’s treasures. 

The faces are no longer expressionless, for the spirit of the 
Pilgrims came into the spirit of the painter. 

Pottle 145 

During the reign of Marcus Aurelius the PERSECUTION of 
Christians was very bitter. Some of the best SOLDIERS had 
become Christians. The decree came that the army was to 
march through the temple and each man was to bow before the 
image of the emperor. Many were obedient to the decree. Forty 
men were found set aside. By the Emperor’s decree they were 
to be stripped and exposed on the ice in the Tiber until they 
RECANTED or died. On their march to the river they took up 
the cry, “Forty wrestlers, wrestling for thee, O Christ, to win 
for thee the victory; to win from thee the CROWN.” 

One only of these failed under this terrible TEST. Entering 
into the temple he prostrated himself before the image. 

The captain of the guard, touched by their teaching and their 
BRAVERY, disrobing himself as he went, took up the cry of 
the thirty-nine, “Forty wrestlers wrestling for thee, 0 Christ, to 
win for thee the victory and from thee the crown.” 


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Luke 15. 32.—Was dead, alive again; was lost, is found. 
Exod. 12. 14.—This day for a memorial. 

Deut. 8. 2.—Thou shalt remember all the way. 

2 Sam. 18. 29.—Is the young man saved? 


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Acts 28. 6.—After they looked, they changed their minds. 
2 Tim. 3. 5.—A form of godliness. 

John 1. 46.—Come and see. 

Luke 10. 37.—Mary who sat at the Lord’s gate. 

John 19. 5.—Behold the man! 


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Ruth 1. 14.—Orpah kissed her mother-in-law. 
Dan. 6. 10.—Prayed as he did aforetime. 

2 Tim. 4. 6.—Ready to be offered. 

Heb. 10. 39.—Who draw back unto perdition. 
Rev. 2. 10.—I will give a crown of life. 


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At the foot of the Rockies on the Pacific coast are very strange 
and very interesting gullies or canons reaching far back into the 
heart of the country. 

Geologists go from all parts of the world to see them. You can 
sail for miles inland in narrow, canal-like creeks. Great canon 
fissures in the Rockies into which the waves of the Pacific wind 
for miles. 

As the steamer goes into the narrow creek there seems right 
before you a precipice of beetling rock. 

But there is no reversing of the engines; full speed is 
registered. You think you are about to go to pieces on the 
rocky crags. The captain is on the bridge and seems uncon¬ 
cerned; straight ahead you are going, and just as the prow 
seems to touch the rock the crag splits and you see a waterway 
that would almost float the navies of the world, nestling in the 
heart of the mountain. 

Your fear was uncalled for. The man on the bridge was not 
FEARFUL, nor TIMOROUS, because of faith and KNOWLEDGE. 
How often we find very like to this in real life: like Pilgrim 
when he saw the lions in the way, but did not know until the 
journey was continued and instructions were OBEYED that the 
lions were CHAINED to one side of the way, allowing him 
abundant room to safely pass. 

Pottle 147 

An incident from real life is told of the conversion of a young 
telegraph operator at Zanesvillo, Ohio, some few years since. 

He was converted while asking for PRAYERS in a church. 

The incident was related in a meeting in Cincinnati by a 
Christian neighbor, who knew the 'circumstance. 

At the Cincinnati meeting a young man, also a telegraph 
operator, was present. He became interested in the account, but 
DOUBTED the facts. 

The same evening while thinking the incident over in his 
office he concluded to inquire by telegraph of the Zanesville oper¬ 
ator if such a case as that related in the Cincinnati meeting 
had really occurred or was only prepared for its effect. 

He gave the signal for Zanesville and Zanesville answered. 
Touching the key he gave the story over the wires as it had 
been given in the meeting, giving the name of the young man. 

The operator at Zanesville answered, “Yes, it is all TRUE. I 
am the man myself.” A conversation was carried on over the 
wires between the operators, and the words came in eloquent 
utterance along the line like a MESSAGE from above, “BELIEVE 
in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be SAVED.” The 
return message from Cincinnati was, “PRAY for me NOW.” 
And the two operators, with two hundred miles between them, 
knelt to pray. Soon came the answer from the Cincinnati 
operator that everything was clear and his life was given to God. 

That which men sometimes most easily DOUBT is but God’s 
ordinary way of doing things. 


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Pottle 146 

1 Pet. 1. 5.—Guarded through faith unto salvation. 

Esther 5. 2.—The king held out to Esther the golden scepter. 
Psa. 42. 11.—Hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him. 
Mark 15. 25.—And they crucified him. 

John 11. 39.—By this time he stinketh (despair). 


Pottle 147 

John 1. 46.—Come and see. 

Acts 28. 6.—After they looked they changed their minds. 
Acts 26. 22—Witnessing both the small and the great. 

2 Cor. 6. 2.—Today is the day of salvation. 


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Pottle 148 

Thomas Carlyle, toward the end of life, said: “The older I 
grow—and now I stand upon the brink of eternity—the more 
comes back to me the sentence in the Catechism which I learned 
when a CHILD, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes: 
‘What is the chief end of man? To GLORIFY God, and ENJOY 
him forever.’ ” 

There are all sorts of AMBITION in the world; there is no 
better sort than this. No ambition brings such measure of 
reward for the years of time and for eternity. 

pottle 140 

Wild GEESE by the wagon load were slaughtered in the sub¬ 
urbs of Topeka, Kansas, in 1898. 

Some extraordinary atmospheric conditions had brought vast 
flocks of the fowls down from their lofty courses through the 
air, and caused them to sail in dismal PERPLEXITY within ten 
or fifteen feet of the ground. 

Night began to come on and the geese were ATTRACTED by 
the blazing electric lights, and around and around these lights 
hundreds of geese fluttered in blind confusion. 

It did not take long for the people living in the vicinity to 
discover the opportunity for laying up a supply of poultry. All 
who had guns or revolvers began to shoot into the thick flocks, 
and geese by the hundreds came tumbling to the ground. Those 
who had no guns took long poles and knocked down the dis¬ 
tracted birds almost as fast as the gunners did. 

Men and women are CAUGHT in the WINDS of life like that 
sometimes, and fall easy PREY to the devil’s pot hunters. 

Nothing is more pathetic, no one more to be pitied than the 
confused soul who flies hither and thither without a GUIDE. 

Blinded by the lights of luxury, ease, or notoriety in the lower 
atmospheres, a multitude are stricken down when they ought to 
be flying in safety beyond the reach of such dangers. 

Pottle 150 

He SERVES his CHURCH the best 

Who lives pure life and doeth righteous deed, 

And walks STRAIGHT paths, however others stray, 

And leaves to us his uttermost BEQUEST, 

A stainless record which all men may READ. 

This is the better way. 

No DROP but serves the slowly lifting tide; 

No dew but has an errand to some flower; 

No SMALLEST STAR but sheds some helpful ray. 

And, man by man each HELPING all the rest, 

Makes the firm bulwark of the Church’s power. 

There is no better way. 

—Accommodated from Susan Coolidge. 


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Pottle 148 

Heb. 1. 11.—Let us press on unto full growth. 

2 Tim. 4. 6.—I am ready to be offered. 

1 Cor. 13. 12.—Now through a glass darkly, but then. 

John 14. 3.—Where I am, there ye also. 

Mark 10. 22.—Went away grieved for he had great possessions. 
Joel 1. 3.—Tell ye your children of it. 

Prov. 22. 6.—Train up a child, he will not depart. 

Gal.'5. 22.—The fruit of the spirit is joy (life-refreshment). 


Pottle 149 

Isa. 5 13.—Into captivity because no knowledge. 

1 Pet. 5. 8.—The devil goeth about seeking whom he may 
devour. 

Eph. 4. 14.—By every wind of doctrine. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the Spirit is peace (life-rest). 


Pottle 150 

James 1. 27.—Unspotted from the world. 

1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou (as) an engraver in word. 

Rom. 14. 7.—The fruit of the Spirit is goodness (life re¬ 
enforcement). 

Isa. 58. 6.—Is not this the fast that I have chosen. 


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Pottle 151 

Marcus Dods tells about preaching a sermon to his congre¬ 
gation in Liverpool from the episode of the Prodigal Son and the 
anger of the elder brother. He says, “As I was leaving the church 
I was requested to visit a dying man whom I had seen frequently 
before, but who was then apparently about to pass within the vail. 

“He had been for years a careless and irreligious man. I had 
conversed faithfully and earnestly with him of Jesus and his 
SALVATION; and he had turned in sincere PENITENCE to his 
Father, and was, I believe, accepted of him. When I entered I 
found him in great happiness. I talked and prayed and left. 

“His brother-in-law followed me down stairs and said: ‘I can¬ 
not understand this at all. Here I have been serving Christ these 
twenty years and I have never experienced such JOY as he 
expresses, and yet he has not been a Christian, if he really be 
one, for more than a few weeks ’ 

“Immediately I recognized the ‘elder brother,’ and I staid long 
enough to show him just how he looked in the light of the 
parable. I warned him of the danger of being angry and re¬ 
fusing to go into the father’s house to share the joy over the 
returning PRODIGAL. The result was that he saw his error 
and was delivered from his ENVY.” 

Pottle 152 

The Rev. Vernon B. Carroll gives the following amusing and 
illustrating incident. He says: “We were driving out one Sunday 
from Decatur, when we came upon a Negro with a club in his 
hand and a freshly killed ’possum on his shoulder. 

“We stopped to examine his prize and the Colonel said: ‘My 
friend, do you know it is Sunday?’ ‘Sartin, Boss.’ ‘Are you a 
religious man?’ ‘I are; I’s jest on my way home from church.’ 

“ ‘And what sort of RELIGION have you got that permits you 
to go hunting on Sunday?’ 

“‘Religion, religion?’ queried the man, as he held the ’possum 
up with one hand and scratched his head with the other. ‘Does 
you ’specks any black man in Alabama is gwine to tie hisself 
up to a RELIGION that Tows a ’possum to walk right cross the 
road head of him and get away free? No, sah! A religion that 
won’t BEND a little when a fat ’possum heads you off couldn’t 
be established ’round here by all the preachers in the universe.’ ” 

Moral: There are many ’possums, and too much religion that 
bends a little or more than a little. 

Pottle 153 

The story is told that Leonardo da Vinci, in executing his 
LAST SUPPER, painted the faces of the apostles so well that he 
raised expectations for the face of Christ which he failed to meet. 

With the FACE neither he himself nor any for whose judgment 
he cared was quite satisfied. 

It is easy for us in real life to have so many adjectives of 
PRAISE for man that Christ is even less accounted of. 


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pottle 151 

Luke 15. 32.—Was dead, alive again; was lost and is found. 

1 Pet. 1. 8.—Whom not having seen we love. 

2 Chron. 15. 3.—A long time without, hut when they turned. 


Pottle 152 

Exod. 20. 8.—Remember the Sabbath day. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 
Eph. 5. 15.—See that you walk to a point. 

Acts 24. 16.—I stir myself up to have a conscience. 


Pottle 153 

John 19. 5.—Behold the man! 

Col. 1. 18.—That in all things he might have the preeminence. 
Song 5. 10.—Chiefest among ten thousand. 

1 Cor. 13. 12.—Now we see through a glass darkly, but then. 


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pottle 154 

To prevent a repetition of the disaster of 1900, when the ocean 
swept over the low island on which the city of Galveston, Tex., 
stands, drowning men and women and children by hundreds, a 
great wall of concrete and granite has been builded, partly by 
the city and partly by the federal government, to keep out the 
WAVES. The wall is sixteen feet wide at the base, curving to 
five feet at the top, and one foot higher than the highest water 
of the 1900 STORM. It has a total length of about four and a 
half miles and was almost two years in building. 

The sea wall rests upon a foundation of four parallel rows of 
round piling, placed at four-foot intervals, and driven to a depth 
of forty feet through the sand and piercing into the clay beneath. 
In addition to this piling between the first and second rows is a 
solid, continuous sheet piling so formed as to make a tight wall 
twelve inches thick and extending twenty-four feet below the 
surface, designed to prevent any undermining action of the 
currents or waves. 

Cast over the tops of these five rows of piling is a continuous 
concrete base, into which are inserted steel reenforcing rods 
which extend upwards and around which the wall is formed. 

Upon the completed foundation the sea wall is cast in a solid 
section. Molds are placed and the mixture of cement and 
crushed granite is poured into them, and when the mass has set, 
the molds are removed. So the work is carried on. Within the 
wall at two-feet intervals are steel reenforcing rods ten feet in 
length and one and one-half inches in diameter. 

In conjunction with the building of this great wall it is planned 
to RAISE up the city, which work is now being carried on suc¬ 
cessfully, and it is hoped that ultimately the level of the wall 
will not be above any part of the city. 

The construction of the wall includes over thirty thousand car¬ 
loads of material, which would require full fifteen hundred trains 
of twenty cars each, or one string of cars reaching over two 
hundred miles. 

This to save property and life at Galveston—and yet the time 
and money expended is doubtless wisdom. 

This whole great project suggests the interrogation, “What 
about SAVING men from the surfs of sin, from the ocean’s storms 
that drown in destruction and despair?” 

What cost is too great—what time too long, what effort too 
carefully planned? 


Pottle 155 

At the launching of the new British cruiser Albion, the finest 
ship of her class in the British navy, a most deplorable ACCI¬ 
DENT occurred. Large numbers of people forced their way to a 
frail bridge against which they had been warned, and when the 
Albion slipped into the water the bridge was carried away and 
over fifty persons were drowned. 

The bridge had been marked DANGEROUS, but the people 
would not listen to the guards stationed to WARN them. 


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Pottle 154 

Num. 35. 11.—Miklot cities—cities of refuge. 

Joel 1. 3.—Tell ye your children of it. 

Amos 4. 12.—Prepare to meet thy God. 

Prov. 27. 12.—A prudent man seeth, but the simple. 

Eph. 6. 12.—We fight against principalities and powers and. 
Heb. 2. 3.—How shall we escape if we neglect? 


Pottle 155 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and is profitable. 
Mark 9. 45.—If thy foot offend thee. 

Luke 8. 18.—Take heed therefore how ye hear. 

Jonah 2. 1.—Prayed out of the fish’s belly. 

Lam. 3. 27.—Good to bear the yoke in youth. 

1 Sam. 3. 13.—He restrained them not. 


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pottle 156 

Stephen Grellett, a great mission preacher of his time, was 
DIRECTED by the SPIRIT to take a long journey into the back 
woods of America and PREACH to some wood-cutters. 

He found only empty shanties, for the cutters had gone into the 
forest, but finding a large shanty he preached his sermon. 

The years passed until one day he was walking across the 
London bridge, when a man took hold of him, and said: “I have 
found you at last! I have found you at last!” “Friend,” said 
Stephen Grellett, “I think you are mistaken.” 

“But I am not,” said the man. “Did you not preach on a 
certain day and at a certain place in the back woods of America?” 

“Yes,” said the good man, “but I saw no one there to listen.” 

“I was there—I was the ganger of the woodmen—we had 
moved—I had left my lever, and I went back after it. 

“I heard a voice and saw you through the timber wall. I 
listened to you and was deeply convicted of my sin. 

“The arrow stuck fast. I had no Bible. At last I possessed 
myself of the sacred treasure, and obtained eternal LIFE. 

“I told my men the same blessed NEWS, and they were every 
one converted to GOD and three of them became missionaries. 

“And then,” added the strange man, “I have been possessed of 
a desire to tell you that your SERMON had been the means of 
the conversion of at least one thousand souls.” 

Pottle 157 

Some time ago a span of the iron bridge across the Schuylkill, 
in Philadelphia, was removed and another one put into its place 
in less than nine minutes. A train passed over the old span and 
nine minutes later a train passed over the new. 

For months before, the best workmen had been busy making 
the new span and when the crisis came the work of taking out 
and putting in was done speedily because of preparation. 

It is often an overlooked fact that the PREPARATION of 
church attendance from Sabbath to Sabbath is the explanation 
of a LIGHT that breaks in upon the life as in a moment. 

The QUIET hours PREPARE us for EMERGENCIES. 

Pottle 158 

Two traveling salesmen were assigned to the same room in a 
crowded hotel. One had the COURAGE to read his Bible before 
retiring and ask his room-mate if he was a Christian. 

Out of that experience grew a desire to find a way by which 
Christian travelers might recognize each other, and so these two 
men, John Nicholson, of Janesville, and Sam Hill, of Beloit, 
invited some traveling friends to meet them. 

The organization of Christian traveling men was started, 
called “The GIDEONS,” which has since grown to almost five 
thousand members, has been instrumental in closing the bars in 
a number of hotels and in starting many revivals. 

The organization is an illustration of the great good that may 
spring from the PERSONAL interest of one earnest Christian. 


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Pottle 156 

1 Thes. 5. 19.—Quench not the Spirit. 

1 Cor. 15. 58.—For as much as your labor is not in vain. 
Rom. 1. 16.—The power of God unto salvation. 

John 15. 14.—Ye are my friends, if ye do. 

Isa. 55. 11.—Shall not return void:—it shall accomplish. 


pottle 157 

2 Sam. 8. 1.—And after this David smote. 

2 Kings 3. 11.—Elisha, who poured water on the hands of 
Elijah. 

Matt. 24. 24.—Be ye also ready, for in an hour. 

Eph. 5. 16.—Buying up the opportunity. 


Pottle 158 

Gen. 4. 9.—Am I my brother’s keeper? 

Acts 20. 20.—From house to house. 

Psa. 95. 6.—Let us kneel before Jehovah, our maker. 

Prov. 27. 17.—So a man shapeth the countenance of a friend. 
Acts 26. 22.—Witnessing both the small and the great. 


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Pottle 159 

A speaker at Northfield last summer told a vivid story of an 
express train which was wrecked on its way to the Pacific coast. 

The President of the railroad company was on board and hur¬ 
ried to the front, where the ENGINEER, FAITHFUL to the last, 
was pinned down, helpless and dying, under the wreck of the 
engine. Bending down, he heard the engineer repeating to 
himself through his agony, “I KNOW whom I have believed and 
am persuaded that he is ABLE to KEEP that which I have 
committed unto him against that day.” 

The president was greatly moved. “Jim,” said he, “I would be 
willing to GIVE my life, with all that I have, for such a FAITH 
as that!” 

“Ah, sir,” answered the engineer, “that is just what it COSTS!” 

Truth that is not always welcome and yet the fact remains 
that discipleship means a CONSECRATION of the whole of life, 
or it means nothing. 

From the beginning, Christianity costs—it cost Christ his 
LIFE—it costs us ours and we gain only as we give the unalter¬ 
able price, and he who understands and gives his all, though his 
physical body may be pinned under some wreck, is easily able to 
repeat, with Jim, the engineer: “I know whom I have believed 
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have 
committed unto him against that day.” 

The price of a “life” is not too much for an experience like 
that. 

pottle 160 

Oh, how times and seasons change a man’s idea of VALUES. 

John Robertson, of Scotland, tells of a most pleasant beginning 
of his ministry, among the fisher-folk, in the formative days of 
his earlier life. 

He tells us: “In Stonehaven, where I began my ministry, the 
markets greatly fluctuate. One of the boats is ‘A39,’ and the 
skipper of boat No. 39 commanded the best prices in the market. 

“He is the best bargain-maker on the northeastern coast of Scot¬ 
land. He always gets the best business. 

“One day boat ‘A39’ was far out on the sea. A bright fisher lad, 
SON of the skipper, was working on the boat, when she suddenly 
lurched—the tackle swung around and he was swept into the 
sea—the boat shot ahead and before help could get to him the 
sea was as calm as if nothing had happened. 

“They waited to see if the lad would come up and the FATHER 
agonizingly looked at the place where his boy went down, but the 
sea never divided again and they went home. 

“When boat ‘A39,’ with a big cargo comes up on the shingles, 
the old fisherman comes ashore; the blinds of his cottage are 
already drawn, for another boat has brought the tidings ashore. 

“If I dared to stop him I would ask the skipper, ‘What’s the 
price of your fish today?’ He would be like to answer, ‘My God, 
the price of the fish is my boy’s LIFE.’ ” 

Yes, fish and the price of fish is accounted important, more or 
less, according to the day and the providence that belongs to it. 


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pottle 159 

2 Sam. 24. 24.—I will not offer that which cost me nothing. 
Psa. 23. 4.—Through the valley of the shadow. 

Luke 14. 28.—First sit down and count the cost. 

1 Cor. 15. 57.—Thanks be to God who giveth victory. 

2 Tim. 1. 12.—He is able to keep my deposit. 


pottle 160 

2 Sam. 18. 29.—Is the young man safe? 

2 Cor. 4. 18.—The things seen are temporal. 

Acts 2. 39.—Unto you and your children. 

Luke 1. 17.—The hearts of the fathers unto the children. 
Luke 14. 28.—First sit down and count the cost. 

Luke 12. 20.—Then whose shall these things be? 



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Pottle 161 

In the POPE’S TREASURE house are two CROWNS which are 
valued at two million five hundred thousand dollars. 

One of them was the GIFT of Napoleon, the Pius VII, and 
contains the largest emerald in the world. 

The other was the'gift of Queen Isabella, of Spain, to Pius IX, 
and weighs three pounds. Its worth is a million dollars. 

These are CROW^N VALUES, belonging to the realm of queens 
and popes, and they may sound large to us, except we keep in 
mind the crown of life which the Lord shall give. 


pottle 162 

An old INDIAN, who for the first time had heard the Gospel, 
was deeply moved and amazed by the story. 

He never thought of the Great Spirit as our Father, said he, 
we HEARD him in the thunder, we saw him in the lightning, 
in the tempest, in the blizzard, and were afraid, but when you 
speak of Him as our FATHER, the thought is very beautiful 
to us. 

The amazement of the old Indian needs to settle in upon the 
lives of us who have heard from infancy of God as Father. We 
need to think over that thought again and again and meditate 
upon it until, like the old Indian, we can say, “The thought is 
very beautiful to us.” 

In the old dispensation the Jew knew God in his judgments 
of power and his deliverance of power, but it belongs to the 
message of God’s only Son to teach us of God’s fatherhood. 


pottle 163 

A story is told of a great Greek statesman who, as he lay on 
his death bed, was asked what the thing was in his life that he 
most REGRETTED. 

He lay silent for a little, then turned his face to the company, 
with a tone of sadness: “It is that I have been DISAGREEABLE 
where I might have been PLEASANT—frowning where I might 
just as easily SMILED—and unforgiving where a KIND word 
would have made me a dozen friends. 

“Yes, I am a FAMOUS man, but my greatness dies with me, 
because the gloom that it cast about me chilled those who might 
otherwise have perpetuated it, and now all my friends can be 
counted on the fingers of my right hand. Oh, that I might live 
my life over again!” 

What was true in Greece two thousand years ago is true here 
today and always will be true. 

Are you a sunbeam or a shadow in the lives of your 
ASSOCIATES? Do you do your work gloomily or do you SMILE 
and SING as you toil? 


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pottle 161 

Rev. 2. 10.—I will give him a crown of life. 

Heb. 11. 26.—Accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches. 
1 Cor. 9. 25.—To obtain a corruptible crown. 

Rom. 8. 17.—Heirs of God to an inheritance. 

Luke 12. 20.—Then whose shall these things be? 


Pottle 162 

Isa. 19. 12.—After the fire a sound of gentle stillness. 
Matt. 6. 9.—Our Father who art in Heaven. 

Psa. 103. 13.—Like as a father pitieth:—so the Lord. 
Luke 15. 20.—His father saw him and was moved. 


Pottle 163 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the SPIRIT is joy (life-refreshment). 
Gen. 4. 6.—Why is thy countenance fallen? 

Gen. 49. 22.—His branches run over the wall. 

Psa. 137. 2.—We hanged our harps upon the willow. 

Prov. 25. 11.—A word fitly spoken is apples of gold. 

Isa. 61. 1.—Anointed to preach, to bind, to comfort, to give. 
Jonah 2. 1.—Prayed out of the fish’s belly. 


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Lottie 164 

The company which is proposing to supply the mines in the 
Rand with electric POWER from the Victoria Falls, 700 miles 
away, hopes to have its system at work by the year 1910 or 1911. 

The power developed is almost inconceivable. The width of 
the river is a full mile and the drop is 400 feet. 

At the bottom of the falls the whole of the volume of water 
rushes through a narrow, zigzag gorge for several miles. 

There is no such concentration of water power anywhere else 
in the world. 

The power house will be situated 350 feet below the falls and 
will be completely HIDDEN. 

Here the electricity will be generated and driven through 
cables suspended on steel towers a thousand feet apart over the 
600 miles of uninhabited country to the suburbs of Johannesburg. 

In order to provide for the necessary fluctuation in the matter 
of supply and demand and to prevent the waste of power all the 
spare power will be used to pump water into a reservoir at the 
top of a high hill, where it will constitute a RESERVE supply. 

God’s great POWER cables are stretched from Heaven to 
earth and are the real furnishing power of millions of souls to 
give forth light as well as energy to search for the TREASURE 
that is hidden and sometimes hidden deep in the heart of man 
and though the “power house” is out of sight, the currents are as 
real as those that will reach the mines of the Rand in South 
Africa from Victoria Falls. 

Do thou let these currents illumine and energize thy life. 

Pottle 165 

One of the men who is helping to WIN Japan for Christ is 
Tsurukichi, once a BURGLAR, and who has spent twenty-three 
of his forty-two years behind PRISON BARS. 

He tells the story of his past career and it is given in the 
Missionary Gleaner in these words: “Tsurukichi was a pro¬ 
fessional pickpocket. By the time he was fifteen years of age he 
had been imprisoned five or six times. It was his AMBITION to 
become a clever burglar. 

He prospered in his evil course and for a while lived in 
luxury, but was later apprehended and sentenced for thirteen 
years in Hokkaido prison. He was one of many prisoners 
released on the occasion of the death of the Dowager Empress, and 
on leaving the prison determined to change his life. “But,” 
says he, “my REPENTANCE being a thing without LIFE did 
not last long.” 

He afterwards received another sentence of six years for 
burglary. Learning that religious books could be purchased by 
the prisoners, he bought a New Testament and began to study, 
that he might be able to read. At the end of one year’s study he 
was able, with great difficulty, to read the Gospel of Matthew. 

After three years he had read through the whole Bible; then, 
says he, “the OLD Tsurukichi died and the NEW Tsurukichi was 
BORN.” Today he is one of the greatest Christian workers in 
Japan. 


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Pottle 164 

Lev. 6. 13.—Fire shall be kept burning on the altar. 

2 Tim. 3. 5.—A form of godliness, but denying the power. 
Ezek. 37. 3.—Can these bones live? 

2 Kings 2. 15.—The spirit of Elijah now rests on Elisha. 
Rom. 1. 16.—The power of God unto salvation. 

Luke 24. 49.—Endued with power from on high. 


Pottle 165 

Phil. 1. 9.—A prisoner of Christ Jesus. 

Col. 3. 9.—Have put off the old man. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 
Rom. 1. 16.—The power of God unto soundness. 

John 11. 39.—By this time he stinketh. 

John 3. 7.—Ye must be born again. 

Acts 17. 12.—Examined the Scriptures daily—therefore. 


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Pottle 166 

Dr. James Gray has frequently told of a company of boys who 
were standing wistfully at the entrance of the building in which 
the great exhibition of the Mechanics’ Charitable Association was 
being held. They all wanted to go in, but had not the price. 

A gentleman seeing them said: “Boys, would you like to go 
in?” There was a vociferous affirmative. 

“Then run down to the center door and just say: ‘Mr. Jenkins, 
of the New York Tribune,’ and the marshal will let you in.” 

“Do you think we are so green as to BELIEVE that?” said the 
boys all but one, and he the son of Dr. Gray. 

Stepping out from among the others, he approached the door, 
uttered the talismanic words and GAINED ADMISSION. 

His companions followed, but not one of them was admitted. 

The boy who had the FAITH to use the strange words entered 
that day, and every day of the fair but one, during three months. 

Man, would you like to go in—to go in to the NEW LIFE?—to 
go in to the great eternal exhibit of the Heaven land? Jesus is 
the talismanic name, only do thou have faith. 

pottle 167 

Rev. D. S. Toy, one of our evangelists, himself had a mar¬ 
velous conversion. He was a man of means and large business 
influence, but was SLAIN by his "APPETITE for strong DRINK. 

He was on his way at one time of great desperation to end his 
life by SUICIDE. When the private secretary of the President 
of the B. & O. railroad met him on the street, put his arm round 
him and said to him: “My dear brother, where are you going?” 
Mr. Toy told him he was going to HELL. The secretary said: 
“But you need not go. COME with me.” And he took him to a 
home where he was tenderly cared for and BROUGHT to Christ. 

The personal word with the touch of LOVE on the part of 
that secretary was the means of SAVING the disheartened 
drunkard, and the drunkard redeemed the means of saving many 
hundreds. A WORD spoken in love, a great change. 

Pottle 168 

In a beautiful Missouri town some years ago two Italian chil¬ 
dren, a brother and sister, of eight and ten years, were singing 
about the streets. Their voices were sweet and clear. Crowds 
were attracted to them and coins found their way into their 
treasury in generous numbers. 

In the same town, sitting in front of a barber shop at the end 
of an arcade which ran off from the public square, was an old 
colored man sawing away on his old fiddle. One leg was gone, 
but his appearance was somewhat repulsive, and he did not at¬ 
tract crowds nor win coins like his GIFTED COMPETITORS. 

One evening the children came into this part of the arcade to 
sing. About to begin their song they noticed the old darkey. 
After a whispered word the boy took a coin from his pocket, 
dropped it into the old man’s hat and quietly left the field to him. 


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Matt. 7. 14.—Few there be that find it. 

Num. 14. 25.—Tomorrow get you into the wilderness. 
Acts 24. 25.—When I have a more convenient season. 
2 Cor. 6. 2.—Today is the day of salvation. 

Heb. 11. 1.—Faith is assurance and conviction. 


Pottle 167 

Rom. 1. 16.—The power of God unto salvation. 
Acts 8. 29.—Join thyself to this chariot. 

Acts 26. 22.—Witnessing both the small and great. 
Prov. 11. 30.—He that is wise winneth souls. 
Prov. 23. 34.—Upon the top of the mast. 

Prov. 23. 2.—If thou be a man given to appetite. 


Pottle 168 

Prov. 11. 25.—The liberal soul shall be made fat. 

Gal. 6. 2.—Bear ye one another’s burdens. 

Isa. 58. 6.—Is not this the fast that I have chosen? 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is meekness (life-relinquishment). 


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A remarkable bird is found in Mexico, called the Bee-Martin, 
which has a TRICK of ruffling up the feathers on the top of its 
head in the exact semblance of a beautiful flower, and when a 
bee comes along to sip honey from the supposed flower, it is 
snapped up by the bird and becomes the prey of its DUPLICITY. 

Such deception is wonderfully current in life. Many anti- 
Christs and false teachers, DECEIVING all but the ELECT, and 
as never before, perhaps, man needs beware of what he hears. 

pottle 170 

“You are under arrest! You are disturbing the peace!” snarled 
a policeman, breaking off the first public prayer of Eva Booth in 
the streets of London. She was still in her early teens, a slight 
slip of a girl, and as the bullying officer tightened his grip on 
her arm she was dragged shrinkingly with him a PRISONER. 

But the action aroused the SYMPATHIES of the ROUGH 
CROWD and in an instant the policeman and his prisoner were 
surrounded and before the officer could raise his voice he was 
beaten to the pavement under the shower of fists. 

It was the girl prisoner who, FORGIVING his rough grip, and 
the cell to which he would have dragged her, appealed to the 
throng in his defense. When the crowd retreated the policeman 
was groaning with two broken legs and a mass of bruises. 

For weeks the little girl in the big ARMY Bonnet paid faithful 
visits to the helpless man in the HOSPITAL, and when he was 
released a warmer FRIEND EVA BOOTH and her cause could 
not have found in all England. 

And to this day we are told she receives letters in a rough, 
scrawling hand, signed simply, “Your POLICEMAN.” 

Pottle 171 

Just as Mr. Toy, the evangelist, was concluding a meeting in 
Portland, Oregon, a young man sprang upon a chair in the aisle 
and said: “Listen a minute! My father is a man of means in 
the East and because of my SINFUL life I ran away from home. 
I came to the Pacific coast and one day while walking down 
Market Street, in San Francisco, I met my father face to FACE. 

“He had traveled across the continent to find me. I escaped 
from him and came to Portland, only to find that I had arrived 
at the time of this REVIVAL. I would have left the city, but for 
the fact that I did not have money. 

“Since hearing Mr. Toy this evening I have concluded that if 
he could be saved I could be, and if you will pray for me I will 
do my best.” 

The man was CONVERTED and miraculously CHANGED. 
He began at once to WORK constantly for Christ and is today at 
the head of a RESCUE Mission on the Pacific Coast, where God 
has greatly used him for the lives of others. 

As we hear of such historic instances we are led to use the 
first message sent across a wire: “What hath God wrought! 


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Pottle 169 

2 John 1. 7.—Many deceivers are entered into the world. 
2 Cor. 11. 14.—Satan as an angel of light. 

2 Cor. 4. 2.—Renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. 
Matt. 24. 24.—Deceive if it were possible the elect. 

Psa. 55. 21.—But his heart was war. 

Gen. 4. 8.—And Cain talked with Abel, his brother. 

2 Sam. 3. 33.—Died Abner as a fool dieth. 


Pottle 170 

Gen. 4. 6.—Why is thy countenance fallen? 

2 Sam. 9. 12.—Mephibosheth as one of the king’s sons. 
Prov. 30. 26.—The coneys are but a feeble folk, yet. 
Isa. 11. 6.—A little child shall lead them. 

Ezek. 37. 3.—Can these bones live? 

Matt. 6. 15.—If ye forgive not men. 

Luke 6. 23.—In that day leaped for joy. 


Pottle 171 

Luke 15. 32.—Was dead, alive again; was lost, is found. 
Heb. 11. 34.—Out of weakness were made strong. 

Col. 3. 9.—Ye have put off the old man. 

2 Cor. 7. 11.—Sorrowed after a godly sorrow. 

Rom. 6. 23.—The wages is death, the gift is life. 

Luke 1. 17.—The heart of the fathers to the children. 


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pottle 172 

A gentleman who was traveling in. NORWAY tells how he went 
to see a noted church in one of its towns. Upon the tower near 
its top is the carved figure of a LAMB. Inquiring the reason 
for this strange figure, you are told that a workman fell from a 
high scaffold while the church was building. 

His fellow-workmen hastened down, expecting to find him 
dashed to DEATH. They found him almost unhurt’. 

A flock of SHEEP was passing the Church at the time of his 
fall and as they were crowded together he fell among them, 
lighting upon a lamb, which was crushed to death, and so they 
carved the figure upon the church tower in memory of his rescue. 

We think with admiration of the gratitude of this rescued 
one, taking this form in which to express itself. 

There is another lamb, the Lamb of God, the life of whom 
crushed out saves the falling sinner. What memorial shall we 
chisel or lift on high to express our gratitude? 

Pottle 173 

A SLAVE woman named Ogunro, living in the Ilale country, 
west of the Niger, longed for FREEDOM and worked hard until 
she secured it. She then traveled to another region to enjoy 
her life. 

Here she was CONVERTED to Christ, and this gave her a 
new AMBITION. What she now longed for was to TELL the 
Ilale people, among whom she had been a slave, what good things 
she had learned. 

She went back to Ilale, worked hard and earned money, builded 
a church, and late in the year 1903 she placed the Church at the 
disposal of the nearest Christian pastor. 

When record of FAITHFULNESS like this comes to us from 
darkest AFRICA it ought to stir us up to question what church 
have we built, with our greater opportunities and greater light. 

Pottle 174 

On a railway train on a branch road running from a great city 
to a suburb a woman, evidently a foreigner, and very POOR, 
was encumbered by a baby in her arms and two older children 
at her side, in addition to several bundles. 

The brakeman announced her station, but she was bewildered, 
and could not easily manage the babies and bundles. 

A tall young fellow, conspicuously well dressed and sitting near, 
apparently lost in a book, tossed the book aside, seized the heavy 
bundles and gave a hand to one of the little children, helping 
them to the platform. Then he lifted his hat to the mother as 
if she had been his own, resumed his place in his book as if 
he had done that which it was his HABIT to do. 

Such incidents in life in any car ought to stir up all those who 
notice to a like thought and PRACTICE of HELPFULNESS. 

The strength of a man’s character is in no way lessened because 
of the presence of this strand of BEAUTY. 


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Pottle 172 

Heb. 9. 22.—Without shedding of blood is no remission. 
Rom. 6. 23.—The wages is death—the gift is life. 

Mark 15. 31.—He saved others—himself he cannot save. 
Matt. 20. 28.—To minister and to give his life. 

Isa. 53. 5.—And with his stripes we are healed. 

Num. 29. 11.—Sin offering of the atonement. 


Pottle 173 

1 John 4. 20.—He who loveth God, love his brother. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 
Acts 20. 20.—From house to house. 

Psa. 40. 2.—Out of a pit of tumult. 

Rev. 22. 17.—Let him that heareth say Come. 


pottle X74 

1 John 2. 6.—Pride of life is not of the father. 

1 Kings 7. 22.—Upon the top of the pillars was lily-work. 
Gal. 6. 2.—Bear ye one another’s burdens. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is goodness (life reenforcement). 
Rom. 14. 7.—None of us liveth to himself. 

Matt. 23. 11.—He that is greatest shall be your servant. 


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You ask me to name that towering mass 
Whose battlements wall out the sun’s eager light, 

That rises like night from the frowning morass, 

And a cloud like a CURSE on a pestilence blight 
Hangs over it ever, while its deep, slimy moat 
Breeds poison and death and corpses afloat, 

Make the soul sick with loathing—the eyes blind with dread 
As with terror they gaze on the unburied dead; 

Whose towers are crowded with souls WRECKED and tossed 
Looking HOPELESSLY out on a Paradise LOST. 

You ask me its name?—would it never had been! 

It is called the SALOON, or the Castle of Sin. 

It is here LIFE is bartered, its honor and fame, 

And the best gifts of God for RUIN and shame. 

Years with all their sweet pledges and promises fair 

Of joy and of good and the bountiful share 

Of the world’s true enjoyments are valued no worth. 

Neither glory «of living, nor honor of birth— 

The sacredest, sweetest, without and within— 

Are counted as nought in this Castle of Sin. 

It is here hearts are broken and here mothers pray 
For the LOST and the erring who have wandered away. 

But their prayers are unheeded, for naught doth he care, 
The master within, for a heart-broken prayer, 

For a mother’s beseechings or her soul’s throb of pain. 

His God is his lust and his master is GAIN. 

What matter to him that a sorrowing wife 
Bares her head at his gates and pleads for a life 
That is dear unto her as the babe at her breast, 

Or anything precious in the wild world possessed? 

What cares he this keeper, for the orphans’ loud cry 
That pierces the air like some great cruelty? 

They ask for a father, who lies cold and dead, 

And beseech for a shelter to be clothed and be fed. 

A cry for a mother, but their weeping is vain, 

And the echo comes back like the sobbing of pain, 

And helpless and hopeless they wander away. 

And God, in his pity, alone is their stay. 

But sometime and somehow this castle must fall, 

Must be leveled to dust its tower and hall. 

For its existence is SIN, every stone is a crime, 

A shame upon earth and a blot upon time. 

Like a leper, it stands at the door of an inn, 

Touching each as they pass with his finger of sin. 

Some day in God’s mercy there shall ring one glad knell. 
And this castle shall fall to a bottomless Hell. 


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Gen. 4. 9.—Am I my brother’s keeper? 

Josh. 2. 19.—Whoever shall go out of the doors. 

2 Sam. 3. 33.—Died Abner as a fool dieth. 

Prov. 23. 34.—Upon the top of a mast. 

Prov. 23. 2.—If thou be a man given to appetite. 

1 Cor. 15. 33.—Evil associations corrupt morals. 

1 Cor. 8. 13.—I will eat no more meat forevermore. 


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A little west of Mount Zion, near the Jaffa gate of Jerusalem, 
is a small terrace on the top of a watershed, so level that the rain, 
as it falls on it, seems at a loss which way to go. It is the 
“Terrace of INDECISION.” 

A part of the water is carried by a breath of wind over on the 
west side and descends into the Valley of Roses and down to the 
beautiful plain of Sharon. Fertility and beauty and fruit spring 
up. Fragrant lilies and the roses of Sharon. 

But a large part of the water finds its way to the other side of 
the terrace and descends through the DARK valley of Tophet to 
the Dead Sea, where it brings forth the apple of Sodom and is 
lost forever in the BITTER waters of the sea of DEATH. 

There are many “Terraces of Indecision” in actual life, crucial 
seasons, when a man chooses and forever the Valley of Roses or 
the valley of Tophet, with their respective atmospheres. 

Pottle 177 

When ARAGO, the ASTRONOMER, was young, he became 
thoroughly DISCOURAGED over mathematics. 

One day he found on the fly leaf of a text-book a few words 
from the famous D’Alembert to a discouraged student. 

D’Alembert’s advice was very short. It was, “Go on, sir; go 
on!” Arago said afterwards that that sentence was the best 
teacher of mathematics he ever had. Following it doggedly he 
went on until he became the leading mathematician of his day. 

No man has ever exhausted the power in the words “Go on.” 

Pushing ahead steadily, PERSEVERING step by step, is the 
secret of material, moral, and spiritual SUCCESS. 

Pottle 178 

One day a carrier pigeon tapped at the window of Mrs. Nansen's 
home, at Kristiania. Instantly the window was opened and the 
wife of the famous Arctic explorer in another moment covered 
the little MESSENGER with kisses and caresses. 

The carrier pigeon had been away from the cottage thirty long 
months and had not forgotten the way home. It brought a note 
from Nansen from the polar regions, stating that all was well. 

Nansen had fastened a MESSAGE to the bird and turned it 
loose. The frail courier darted out into the polar air and flew 
like an arrow over a thousand miles of frozen waste, and then 
over another thousand miles of ocean and plain and forest to 
reach the window of its mistress and deliver the message. 

We boast of human FORTITUDE and ENDURANCE, but this 
carrier pigeon, after an absence of two and a half years, accom¬ 
plished a feat so wonderful as to cause a commingling of amaze¬ 
ment and ADMIRATION. 

Like the homing instinct of the carrier pigeon is the homing 
instinct of the soul—nothing but home satisfies. 

Like this carrier pigeon is every man and woman. God has 
turned us loose with a message, a message of “all is well.” 


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Gen. 32. 26.—I will not let thee go except thou bless me. 
Gen. 49. 4.—Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. 

Ruth 1. 14.—And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law. 

Neh. 7. 4.—The city wide and large, the people few. 

Esther 4. 14.—To the kingdom for such a time. 

Matt. 5. 25.—Agree with thine adversary quickly, lest. 
Matt. 11. 12.—The enthusiastic take it by enthusiasm. 


pottle 177 

Heb. 10. 36.—Ye have need of hold-on-to-it-iveness. 
Heb. 6. 1.—Let us pass on unto full growth. 

Col. 3. 2.—Set your minds on the things above. 

Eph. 4. 14.—Carried about by every wind of doctrine. 
Gal. 5. 7.—Ye did run well, who ditched you? 

2 Cor. 12. 14.—The third time I am ready to come. 
Acts 26. 22.—I stand unto this day witnessing. 


Pottle 178 

2 Kings 2. 10.—Determined to (time of) asking. 

Psa. 17. 15.—I shall be satisfied when I awake. 

Mark 16. 15.—Preach the Gospel to every creature. 

Rev. 22. 17.—Let him that heareth say “Come!” 

Isa. 52. 7.—How beautiful the feet of him that bringeth good 
tidings. 

Luke 7. 45.—Hath not ceased to kiss my feet. 


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The United States Treasury Department reports through the 
Secretary of the Treasury concerning the LIFE SAVING service 
as follows: “Our life saving service has 256 complete stations, 
thoroughly equipped with the latest and most effective life-saving 
devices, manned by nearly 2,000 EXPERT surfmen, selected 
solely for professional fitness and (as the law requires) without 
political or partisan consideration. 

The splendid service of humanity keeps its faithful vigil from 
the northernmost point of the Atlantic down the whole line of 
ocean coast and around the shores of the gulf to the Rio Grande 
and along the American shore of the five great lakes, and from 
the Golden Gate of the Pacific up to the British line. 

Out of 4,443 lives IMPERILED only fifty-three were lost, and 
this is regarded by our life-saving authorities as a splendid 
percentage of RESCUE. 

There are sons and daughters of Christian homes that have 
moved into Gospel-neglected communities and are without the 
life-saving appointments of the word of God. 

If, in the interest of saving the BODIES of men our govern¬ 
ment employs two thousand EXPERT surfmen to keep faithful 
VIGIL on our entire coast line, so that one per cent or a little 
less than one per cent, are LOST, ought not the Church of Jesus 
Christ to be as earnest in its effort with the life-saving device of 
the Gospel, in order that they may save morally and spiritually 
these lives in NEGLECTED communities? 

pottle 180 

In the history of Persia a very tender incident is related. 
Twelve men had been robbed and murdered under the walls of 
the city and the king resolved that the guilty ones, if found, 
should be put to death—they were, after a time apprehended and 
their GUILT established beyond a doubt. 

The oath of the king had been taken upon the Koran and the 
sentence of death was passed. On the day of execution men and 
women were in tears as to one young man of exceptional 
promise—they were crying out, “Can’t this young man be 
PARDONED?” but no way was seen. 

A little before the execution the father of the young man 
came — W as admitted to the king and besought the king that he 
might die in his son’s place. Said he: “Oh, sir, be merciful, and 
let me be EXECUTED in his place—he is young and just be¬ 
trothed in marriage—I know that he is GUILTY and deserves it 
all—but I LOVE him and will cheerfully DIE for him.” 

The king was greatly moved by the father’s appeal and accepted 
the father instead of the son. 

The son, wild and almost distracted with grief, pleaded with 
the king to reverse his decree and save the life of his INNOCENT 
father, but the son was spared, while the father met for him the 
just demands of the LAW and was executed with the other eleven 
who died for their own sins. 

The VICARIOUS sacrifice of Calvary is beyond even this.. 


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Gen. 4. 9.—Am I my brother’s keeper? 

Exod. 4. 2.—What is that in thy hand? 

2 Kings 8. 12.—Why weepest not my lord? 

Esther 4. 14.—To the kingdom for such a time as this. 
Ezek. 33. 6.—His blood at the watchman’s hand. 


Pottle 180 

Num. 29. 11.—The sin offering of the atonement. 

Exod. 30. 12.—Every man an offering for his soul. 

Eccl. 12. 14.—Every work into judgment. 

Isa. 53. 5.—And with his stripes we are healed. 

Mark 15. 25.—And they crucified him. 

Horn. 6. 23.—The wages is death—the gift is life. 

Heb. 9. 22.—Without shedding of blood is no remission. 


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pottle 181 

The interest shown in occasional experiments here and there 
with CHILDREN’S churches has led the Rev. Harry A. King, of 
the Oakley M. E. Church, of Kansas City, Mo., to organize a 
children’s church, with children constituting the official boards, 
a child Organist, children as elders and deacons and ushers, and 
of course only children for the congregation. 

The services are held Sunday afternoons, but they are in no 
way to supplant the Sunday school. 

Mr. King says he believes that a child should be a CHRISTIAN 
in a child’s way and should be TAUGHT when old enough the 
polity of the church in which their membership is. 

bottle 182 

The Atlanta News quotes a “European Investigator,” whose 
statements should be remembered. Says this authority: “The 
HANDWRITING of Napoleon I, we are assured by historians, 
lost him WATERLOO. 

“Grouchy could not read with EXACTNESS the message of 
Napoleon. Was it ‘Bataille engagee’ (battle is on) or ‘Bataille 
gagnee’ (battle is won)? Grouchy chose the latter significance, 
and not believing it necessary to press forward, arrived too 
LATE. So much for the curl of a letter, a penstroke or an 
illegible swell to an ‘a.’ 

“This question was brought forward by the writing master of 
Alexander Dumas. ‘Remember, Alexander,’ the master said to 
him, “the great DEFEAT of the emperor was due only to his 
scrawling hand. If you wish to succeed in the world, be 
CAREFUL of your heavy and your light strokes.” 

If Napoleon had known how to write legibly his descendants 
would reign today, doubtless, in France. It is the little thing 
oftentimes that loses or that wins. 

pottle 183 

The Atlanta Georgian gives the following historic incident con¬ 
nected with the California earthquake: 

“Two days before the EARTHQUAKE a benevolent Hebrew 
merchant, upon one of the prominent streets of San Francisco, 
exploited the value of his wares and tried to induce an honest 
farmer to become a purchaser. 

“The farmer frankly admiring the outlay of the merchant, 
confessed his financial inability and told the story of some recent 
misfortunes which had left him without money even for the 
ordinary necessities of his family. The merchant took a $5 gold 
piece from his pocket and asked the farmer to accept it. 

“That closed the incident for that day. Two days later the 
earthquake visited San Francisco, and from the country a 
farmer’s wagon drove into the city, wound its way to the store 
of the Hebrew, to transport the merchant and his goods. 

“The farmer stated that on the way he had met scores of 
people, had been offered extravagant sums for the use of the 
wagon, but had passed these by because of his APPRECIATION.” 


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Pottle 181 

Acts 2. 39.—Unto you and your children. 

John 21. 15.—Feed my lambs. 

Luke 1. 17.—Hearts of the fathers unto the children. 
Mark 10. 13.—And they were bringing unto him. 
Lam. 3. 27.—Good to bear the yoke in view. 

Eccl. 12. 1.—Remember thy creator in youth. 


pottle 182 

1 Kings 7. 22.—Upon the top of the pillars, lily-work. 

1 Cor. 11. 28.—Let a man examine himself. 

Eph. 5. 15.—See that ye walk to a point. 

2 Tim. 2. 15.—A workman cutting straight the word of truth. 
Jude 1. 24.—Faultless before the presence of his glory. 


pottle 183 

Gen. 40. 23.—Yet did not the chief butler remember. 
Luke 1. 13.—Zacharias—Jehovah remembers. 

Exod. 2. 20.—And where is he? 

Phil. 3. 13.—This one thing I do. 

Eccl. 11. 1.—Cast thy bread upon the waters. 


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We are told of an INFIDEL Swiss ARTIST who was serving 
the devil to the extent of his ability, who went to Sheffield, 
England, in 1880; there he asked to make a caricature of a 
Salvation Army meeting. 

He went on that errand and scanned the FACES of the 
people—with his heart like the troubled sea that could find no 
REST, tossed and driven by tempest of passion and tormented 
by a CONSCIENCE burdened with SIN—he looked on the assem¬ 
blage of worshipers and saw PEACE written on their faces and 
an inward JOY beaming from their countenances. 

The SIGHT convinced him of his sinfulness. He saw that 
those people had something that he LACKED. 

He BELIEVED on the Lord Jesus Christ and found peace 
through the BLOOD. 

jBottle 185 

Franklin Pierce was widely celebrated in his day for superior 
intellect, scholarly eloquence, and painstaking examination of 
DETAIL, yet in his YOUTH he was not at all fond of study. 

His father, Benjamin Pierce, early detected some signs of 
ability in this, his favorite son, and Franklin was accordingly 
withdrawn from the village school at Hillsboro and sent to 
Hancock and Francestown, afterwards to Exeter, where he pre¬ 
pared for college. In 1820 he entered Bowdoin College, at the 
age of sixteen. 

The boy Franklin was a tender-hearted, AFFECTIONATE lad, 
and very fond of his home; and for some time after his arrival 
at Hancock he was exceedingly HOMESICK. 

At last he decided to run away home. He arrived at Hillsboro 
one* Sunday morning, while part of the family was at Church. 

His father, however, was at home, and met the fugitive at the 
door. “Why have you come home, Frank?” he asked. 

The boy was always truthful and answered, simply, “I was 
homesick.” 

Without a word of reproach to his son Governor Pierce sent 
for the coachman. “James,” he said, “take the gray mare and 
the chaise and carry Frank half the way to Hancock. He will 
walk the rest of the way.” 

The order was carried out to the letter, and Franklin was set 
down in the. middle of a piece of dense woods. Dejectedly the 
boy turned his face toward Hancock and trudged along mile 
after mile. The afternoon was waning and the shadows in the 
woods were growing longer and longer. A heavy thunderstorm 
was coming up. Presently the rain came down in a torrent and 
drenched him to the skin. But he kept bravely on. 

Late in the evening he reached Hancock, footsore, hungry, and 
wet, but with a new DETERMINATION in his mind. 

He would never give up in anything, however HARD, again. 

In speaking in later years of the EXPERIENCE, he said: “I 
am convinced that it was the turning POINT of my life, and 
I have always been GRATEFUL to my father for his 
FIRMNESS.” 


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Pottle 184 

John 1. 46.—Come and see. 

Acts 28. 6.—After they looked, they changed their minds. 
Eccl. 8. 1.—A man’s wisdom maketh his face. 

Rev. 22. 4.—They shall see His face. 


Pottle 185 

Gen. 49. 4.—Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. 

1 Sam. 3. 13.—He restrained them not. 

Psa. 103. 13.—Like as a father pitieth, so the Lord. 
Prov. 16. 32.—He that ruleth his own spirit. 

Lam. 3. 27.—Good to bear the ill in youth. 

2 Tim. 2. 3.—Endure hardness as a good soldier. 


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Lottie 186 

A young nobleman found himself in a little village in Corn¬ 
wall, England, and sought in vain for a DRINK of LIQUOR. 
At last he asked an old peasant, “How is it that I can’t get a 
drop of liquor anywhere in this wretched village of yours?” 

The old man answered, quietly, “My lord, something over a 
hundred years ago a man named John WESLEY came to these 
parts. A good man’s life lives after him and his INFLUENCE 
moulds the life of communities.” 


pottle 187 

Discouragements come; of course they do. Whoever heard of a 
springtime that was all sunshine; of gold so pure that it con¬ 
tained no particle of dross; of prosperity so great that it never 
met with even the slightest reverse? 

Every LIFE must meet some DISAPPOINTMENT and sorrow. 
Then why not meet them with a philosophic manhood and 
womanhood and seek to OVERCOME their influences by pre¬ 
caution and DETERMINATION, and thus to make the best of 
everything in life. 

The lessons of ADVERSITY are the TRAINING that fits best 
for the future.—Its efforts and successes. 

Warren Hastings, when a boy, GRIEVED over the fact that his 
family had lost, through misfortune, the ancestral estate at 
Daylesford. 

“I will buy it back!” he exclaimed again and again, and he 
did carry out this RESOLUTION of his YOUTH. 

He grew up to be one of the leading statesmen of his age, and 
he bought back the old family estate and ended his days at 
Daylesford. 

This AMBITION may not have been the highest, but it 
examples a STABILITY to be admired. 

Pottle 188 

A strange fatality was reported from Japan in December, 1906. 
A floating mine, a legacy of the Russo-Japanese War, struck the 
shore at Akita, on the west coast of Japan, and exploded, killing 
ten and wounding 156 villagers. The Sea of Japan was sown 
with these floating mines during the war. Several of them have 
been exploded, but this one still DRIFTED about on the sea and 
wrought at last this murderous havoc upon the INNOCENT. 

HEREDITY carries such floating mines down into the next 
generation, there to be exploded among innocent children or 
children’s children. 

The DRUNKARD is setting such mines loose on the stream 
for his DESCENDANTS and other prodigals from God are set¬ 
ting out their mines upon this floating stream. 

WEALTH is often such a floating mine in a family. Let us set 
nothing afloat on the sea of life that can carry death to any 
shore. 


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Pottle 186 

Matt. 7. 16—Ye shall know them by their fruits. 
Mark 4. 28.—After that the full corn in the ear. 
John 15. 1G.—And that your fruits should abide. 
Isa. 55. 11.—It shall not return unto me void. 


Pottle 187 

Mai. 3. 3.—As a refiner and purifier of silver. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 
Psa. 42. 1.—As the hart panteth after the water brooks. 
2 Kings 2. 10.—Determined to (time of) asking. 

Prov. 16. 32.—He that ruleth his own spirit. 


Pottle 188 

Neh. 13. 24.—Half in the speech of Ashdod.- 
Ezek. 18. 2.—The children’s teeth are set on edge. 
Luke 1. 17.—Hearts of fathers unto the children. 
Rom. 12. 19.—Avenge not yourselves. 

Gal. 6. 7.—Whatsoever a man soweth. 


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pottle 189 

Dr. Chapman tells us of a conversation he had a very few 
years ago in Atlanta, Ga., as he was walking with Ex-Governor 
Northen. 

Gov. Northen said, “Do you know that statue?” Chapman 
answered, “I think not.” He said, “Look again.” I looked and I 
saw at the bottom of it, “Henry W. Grady.” 

He said: “That was our Henry. When he went to New York 
he thrilled everybody and was the crowned orator of his time.” 

Henry Grady left one time and they could not find him. He 
left on Thursday and came back on Tuesday. Nobody knew 
where he was. He had gone out to the HOME of his MOTHER 
in the COUNTRY, and when he crossed the threshold he said to 
his mother, “Your son has been losing his old IDEALS and he 
is come back to stay, not as a big man, but as a BOY. Now, 
treat him as a boy.” 

And his mother came to see the necessity, treated him as a 
boy again. She gave him the food he always loved as a boy and 
sat beside him while he ate it. When the evening came, she 
rocked him by the fireside and sang the old lullaby. 

When the time came for this matchless orator to go to bed he 
would get down on his knees, his mother beside him, and would 
say the prayer of his YOUTH, “Now I lay me down to sleep.” 

When she put him into bed she would bend over him and with 
that peculiar touch of a mother’s hand, he would drop to sleep. 

When he came back to Atlanta on his way to New York he 
came with his FACE all shining. He had had his VISION. 

We never can win men to Christ until we can make them 
think and stir up their memory, then they will be able to see 
the unseen and determine and leave for a little while the things 
that perish while we handle them. 

Pottle 190 

Two MERCHANTS in New York were very antagonistic; they 
had done all they could to injure each other. They were in the 
same line of Business. 

One of the merchants was CONVERTED to God. Having been 
converted, he asked the Lord to teach him how to bear himself 
toward his business antagonist. He was impressed that it was 
his duty when a customer asked for a certain kind of goods 
which he himself did not have to recommend him to go to his 
competitor’s store. It was a difficult task, but he RESOLVED to 
do it and being asked, he said to one and to another, go to such 
and such a store, and you will get it. 

It was not long until merchant No. 2 found these customers 
coming, found that they were sent and found also that merchant 
No. 1 had been brought to God, and he sought the same religion. 

Now they are good friends and good neighbors and good Chris¬ 
tians. The grace of God having CHANGED their DISPOSI¬ 
TIONS. 

Whether it be the sin of hatred, the sin of envy, the sin of 
lying, the sin of covetousness, or other sin, the grace of God 
can rule it out and change the life. 


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Pottle 189 

Exod. 12. 14.—This do for a memorial. 

Prov. 22. 6.—Train up a child, and he will not depart. 
Jer. 6. 16.—Ask for the old paths. 

Acts 2. 39.—You and your children. 

1 Cor. 11. 28.—Let a man examine himself. 

2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy grandmother, thy mother and thee. 
Heb. 2. 1.—Lest we drift by them. 

Acts 24. 25.—As he reasoned, Felix trembled. 


Pottle 190 

Rom. 12. 20.—Thou shalt heap coals of fire. 

1 John 4. 20.—He who loveth God love his brother. 
Col. 3. 9.—Ye have put off the old man. 

Eph. 3. 15.—The whole family in heaven and earth. 
Matt. 6. 15.—If ye forgive not men, neither. 


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Pottle 191 

Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, tells about a WAR DANCE that 
the Dakota Indians once held near the mission house. 

He went to Wabasha, the chief, and said: “Wabasha, you asked 
me for a missionary, and a TEACHER. I gave them to you, and 
the first sight is this brutal scalp dance. 

“I knew the Chippewa whom your young men have murdered; 
his wife is crying for her husband, his children asking for their 
father. Wabasha, the Great Spirit hears—he is angry—some day 
he will ask Wabasha, ‘Where is your red brother?’ ” 

The old chief smiled, drew his pipe from his mouth, and said: 
“White man go to WAR with his own brother in the same 
country—KILL more men than Wabasha can count in all his 
life—Great Spirit smiles and says, ‘Good white man! he has 
My Book—I love him—I have a good place for him by and by.’ 

“The Indian is a wild man—he has no Great Spirit Book—he 
kills one man—has a scalp dance—Great Spirit is mad and 
says, ‘Bad Indian! I put him in a bad place by and by.’ 

“Wabasha don’t BELIEVE.” 

Pottle 192 

It was Spurgeon who used to tell about going to a public 
house ini Nottingham to see the landlord’s wife, who was dying. 

He found her REJOICING in Christ as her Saviour. He 
asked her how she found the Lord. “Reading that,” she replied. 

He looked at the paper and found that it was part of an 
American Newspaper containing an extract from a London 
preacher’s SERMON. “Where did you find this Newspaper?” he 
asked. She answered, “It was wrapped round a parcel sent from 
Australia.” Talk about the HIDDEN life of a good SEED. 

A sermon preached in LONDON, conveyed to AMERICA, then 
to AUSTRALIA, the part of it torn off for the parcel and dis¬ 
patched back to England, giving the MESSAGE of SALVATION 
to that woman in Nottingham. Be encouraged; sow the good seed. 

Pottle 193 

The largest of all cranes is the one used for lifting stone on the 
new sea wall on the northern coast of Scotland. Nothing to 
compare with this monster among the great traveling cranes; it 
is capable of lifting a hundred tons. It could pick up a modern 
locomotive with ease. In the work on the wall it lifts in position 
fifty-ton blocks of granite, of which the new sea wall is builded. 
The crane itself weighs seven hundred tons and is built of steel; 
the WALL which is built into the sea is nearly fifty feet wide 
and emphasizes the great EXPENSE and precaution that is taken 
in these days of wealth to protect shores and preserve properties. 

All this so great expense to hold the sea from their lives and 
properties; into what expense ought our AMBITIONS to lead 
when we consider the sea of sin; the loss of life and loss of 
property, what WALLS and dikes ought not we to build—not of 
granite nor of earth, but in CHARACTER. 


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Pottle 191 

1 John 4. 20.—He who loveth God love his brother. 
Gen. 4. 9.—Am I my brother’s keeper?' 

Matt. 7. 3.—And why beholdest thou the mote? 

Isa. 2. 4.—Their swords into plow-shares. 

Matt. 7. 16.—Ye shall know them by their fruits. 


Pottle 102 

Eph. 5. 16.—Buying up the opportunity. 

Gen. 4. 9.—Am I my brother’s keeper? 

Isa. 55. 11.—It shall not return unto me, Lord. 
Mark 7. 24.—He could not be hid. 


Pottle 103 

Gen. 3. 6.—She took the fruit and did eat. 

Joel 1. 3.—Tell ye your children of It. 

Heb. 2. 3.—How shall we escape if we neglect? 
Eph. 6. 12.—Against principalities and powers. 
Rom. 1. 16.—The power of God unto safety. 


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Pottle 194 

There lived forty years ago in Berlin a shoemaker who had the 
HABIT of speaking harshly of all his neighbors who did not 
think quite as he did about religion. 

The old pastor of the parish in which the shoemaker lived 
understood this and set about to give him a lesson. 

He sent for the shoemaker one morning and when he came in 
said to him: “Master, take my measure for a pair of boots.” 

“With pleasure, your reverence. Please take off your boot.” 

The clergyman did so and the shoemaker measured his foot and 
as he was putting up the measure the pastor said to him: 

“Master, my son also requires a pair of boots.” 

“Can I take the young man’s measure now?” 

“It is not necessary,” said the pastor. “The lad is fourteen, 
but you can make my boots and his from the same last.” 

“But your reverence, that will never do,” said the shoemaker. 

“I tell you, sir, to make my son’s on the same last.” 

“But your reverence, it is not possible if the boots are to fit.” 

“Ah, then, master shoemaker,” said the clergyman, “every 
pair of boots must be made on their own last if they are to fit, 
and yet you think that God is to form all Christians according 
to your own last of the same measure and growth in religion as 
yourself! That will not do, either.” 

The shoemaker was abashed; then he said, “I thank your 
reverence for this sermon, and I will try to remember it, and 
judge my neighbors less harshly in the future.” 

Pottle 195 

During the Civil War the military authorities were much 
annoyed by the publication in local daily papers of late news 
from the front, the enemy thus gaining information which 
thwarted the plans in the field. The commandant in Cincinnati 
therefore took possession of the telegraph offices that only prop¬ 
erly permitted news should be published. 

One morning afterward the Cincinnati Gazette came out with 
news from the army which caused great commotion at local 
headquarters, but most strenuous endeavors failed to discover 
the disclosure of the news which came through the telegraph 
offices thought to be under complete military control. Many 
years afterward the facts in the case were disclosed. 

The telegraph operators, with their more than thirty instru¬ 
ments, occupied the top story of the high building on the north¬ 
west corner of Third and Walnut. 

An operator who, some time previously and for cause had been 
discharged, stood listlessly on the diagonally opposite street 
corner. The windows of the top story were opened and sud¬ 
denly his attention was caught by the sound of the instrument 
to which he was ACCUSTOMED. It was more than a hundred 
feet distant from him and all the other sounders were clicking, 
but the night was clear, the street quiet, and the operator took 
the MESSAGE and delivered it to the Gazette night editor. 

So can a man train himself to hear his God. 


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Pottle 194 

James 1. 26.—Bridleth-not-his-tongue-religion. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is longsuffering (life-reprieve). 
Matt. 7. 1.—Judge not that ye be not judged. 


Pottle 105 

1 Chron. 4. 9.—Jabez, more honorable than his brothers. 
Luke 10. 37.—Mary who sat at the Lord’s feet 
Psa. 107. 6.—They cried unto the Lord in their trouble. 
John 10. 27.—My sheep hear my voice. 

1 Cor. 2. 14.—They are spiritually discerned. 

Phil. 3. 15.—If in anything otherwise minded. 


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Pottle 196 

A recent magazine contains an article entitled “A State in 
Arms against a Caterpillar,” which shows at what immense cost 
Massachusetts is seeking to stamp out a PLAGUE which, if left 
alone, would ruin the agriculture of the UNITED States. 

A fact not to be overlooked is that the caterpillars were intro¬ 
duced by scientific men who were studying them in Massa¬ 
chusetts. To “His Great Regret” they escaped and the loss and 
COST is millions of dollars. 

Another instance a thousand times repeated in different ways 
of the importance of LITTLE things and the cost of a small 
NEGLECT. 


Pottle 197 

Dr. Guthrie used to tell a story of a crossing sweeper. He had 
swept the crossing in London for many years. He had an 
AMBITION to have a new broom. One day he was able to 
satisfy the ambition. Soon after he was sweeping the crossing 
when a lawyer put his hand on his shoulder and asked the old 
man a question. 

The sweeper answered it. “You are the man I have been look¬ 
ing for for a long time.” Said the lawyer, “You are HEIR to a 
large estate.” The man looked at him in amazement, but saw 
he was in earnest. “Are you sure?” he asked. “Quite sure,” said 
the lawyer. “Come with me and I will tell you all about it.” The 
man flung down his new broom in the street. 

So when a man gets his eye on greater inheritances, why 
should he keep hold of the broom? 

Pottle 198 

Off Santiago Captain John W. Phillips said: “I BELIEVE in 
God the Father Almighty, and this is his HAND. Let us 
THANK him for his grace.” 

Two things have been apparent in the victorious struggle of 
our country with the Spanish. 

They are the old Norse blood of the conquering Anglo-Saxon 
and the FINGER of the God of Nations in history, and we have 
new testimony to the GUIDANCE of God. 

And let every American be as the conquering captain off San¬ 
tiago. Remember that in the time of VICTORY CONFESSION 
is eminently proper. 

Pottle 199 

A returned Klondike miner of the negro race has plans to buy 
the plantation on which he once worked as a slave, and present 
it to the family which once owned it and himself. 

The family is now POOR and the big heart of the freedman is 
filled with GRATITUDE for their kindness in days of servitude. 

Such a man is a credit to humanity, no matter what his race. 

Gratitude is a virtue most to be coveted and seemingly easiest 
to be lost, or most difficult to be acquired. 


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Pottle 196 

James 3. 5.—How great a matter a little fire kindletli. 
Gal. 6. 7.—Whatsoever a man soweth. 

Rom. 14. 7.—None of us liveth to himself. 

Matt. 3. 25.—While men slept, the enemy came. 

Song 2. 15.—The little foxes that spoil. 

Gen. 4. 9.—Am I my brother’s keeper? 


Pottle 197 

Gen. 7. 1.—Come thou into the ark. 

Isa. 1. 3.—The ox knoweth, my people do not consider. 
John 5. 40.—Ye will not come unto me. 

Rom. 8. 17.—Heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. 
Phil. 3. 7.—These I counted lost for Christ. 


Pottle 198 

Rev. 19. 6.—The Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 

Eph. 6. 12.—Against principalities and powers. 

1 Cor. 15. 57.—Thanks be to God, that giveth us the victory. 
1 Sam. 7. 12.—Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. 

Exod. 2. 20.—And where is he? 

Eph. 5. 20.—Giving thanks always for all things. 


Pottle 199 

Gen. 40. 23.—Yet did not the chief butler remember. 
Exod. 2. 20.—And where is he? 

2 Cor. 9. 15.—For his unspeakable gift. 


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Pottle 200 

Sometime, when all life’s lessons have been learned, 

And sun and stars forever more have set. 

The things that our weak judgments here have spurned, 
The things o’er which we grieved with lashes wet, 
Will flash before us, out of life’s dark night, 

As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue; 

And we shall SEE how all God’s plans are right, 

And how what seemed reproof was LOVE most true. 

And we shall see how, while we frown and SIGH, 

God’s plans go on as BEST for you and me; 

How, when we call, he heeded not our cry. 

Because his wisdom to the end could see; 

And even as wise parents disallow 
Too much of sweet to craving babyhood, 

So God, perhaps, is keeping from us now 
Life’s sweetest things because it seemeth good. 

And if, sometimes commingled with life’s wine, 

We find the wormwood and rebel and shrink, 

Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine 
Pours out this potion for our lips to DRINK 
And if some friend we love is lying low, 

Where human kisses cannot reach his face. 

Oh, do not blame the loving father so, 

But bear your sorrow with obedient grace! 

And you shall shortly KNOW that lengthened breath 
Is not the sweetest gift God sends his friend, 

And that, sometimes, the sable pall of death 
Conceals the fairest boon his love can send. 

If we could push ajar the gates of LIFE, 

And stand within and all God’s workings see, 

We could interpret all this doubt and strife, 

And for each MYSTERY could find a KEY! 

But not today. Then be content, poor heart! 

God’s plans, like lilies pure and white, unfold; 

We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart, 

Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. 

And when, through patient toil, we reach the land 
Where tired feet, with sandals loosed, may rest. 

Then we shall clearly see and understand, 

And then we all will say, “God knew the best.” 


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Pottle 200 

Gen. 3. 22.—Lest he reach forth, and live forever (mercy). 
Gen. 50. 20.—But God meant it unto good. 

Ruth 1. 20.—Call me Mara. 

Psa. 23. 4.—Though I walk through the valley. 

Phil. 4. 11.—I have learned to be content. 


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Pottle 201 

In a meeting for men conducted by Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, in 
Washington City, some years ago, a man under the gallery arose 
and with the greatest emotion, gave the following testimony: 

“I feel it to be my duty to bear WITNESS to the CLEANSING 
POWER of the BLOOD of Jesus Christ. 

“In the spring of 1891 I got off a freight train at the Pennsyl¬ 
vania depot, a tramp, and for one year I lived in this city as 
other TRAMPS now live. “About the end of the year I approached 
a man standing on Pennsylvania Avenue and touched him on the 
shoulder and said, ‘Mister, please give me a dime.’ 

“As soon as the man looked me in the face I saw that it was 
my old FATHER, from whom I had been wandering. 

“I wished that the ground would swallow me up, but could not 
prevent my lips saying, ‘Father, don’t you know me?’ 

“Oftentimes I had thought over what might be if we should 
meet again, and had concluded that I should find nothing but 
anger and contempt, I had so disgraced him. 

“But when I asked that question, for a moment he gazed at 
me, and then throwing his ARMS about me, he cried, ‘I have 
found you, I have found you. All I have is yours.’ 

“I could not keep back another question, ‘Have I broken 
mother’s heart? is she living?’ 

“The answer was, ‘My last promise to her was that as soon as 
I found you I would lead you to the altar, that you might find 
Christ.’ Never letting me go, he walked with me from that 
sacred spot to this mission room, and leading me to the altar, 
asked the minister to pray for his PRODIGAL son. 

“When I found that my earthly father loved me so and did not 
rebuke me with harsh words, I could more easily believe that my 
heavenly father loved me and was seeking to give me what he 
had to give. Before I rose from my knees I accepted Jesus 
Christ as my Saviour. 

“Men, think of it, that I, a tramp, stood begging my father 
for ten cents, when for eighteen years he had been looking for 
me, to GIVE me ALL he was worth.” 

Not only do unchristian men and women, but Christian ones as 
well, wait in comparative penury even for eighteen years for 
gifts that God has all the time been anxious to bestow. 

Pottle 202 

The great Darwin once said: “I cannot endure to read a line of 
poetry, and I have almost lost my TASTE for pictures and 
music. 

“My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding 
out laws out of a large collection of facts, and this seems to have 
caused the atrophy of that part of the brain on which the 
HIGHER tastes depend. 

“If I had my life to live again I would read some poetry and 
would listen to some music at least once a week. 

“It is an accursed evil to a man to become so absorbed in any 
subject as I am in mine.” 


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pottle 201 

Heb. 11. 25.—The pleasures of sin for a season. 

Rom. 8. 17.—Heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. 
Rom. 2. 4.—The goodness of God to a change of mind. 
John 6. 37.—I will in no wise cast out. 

Luke 15. 32.—Was dead, alive again; was lost, is found. 
Rom. 1. 16.—The power of God unto soundness. 


bottle 202 

Heb. 6. 1—Let us press on unto full growth. 

Col. 3. 2.—Set your mind on the things above. 

1 Kings 20. 40.—Busy here and there, he was gone. 

1 Kings 7. 22.—Upon the top of the pillars, lily-work. 


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Pottle 203 

Edison, when perfecting the phonograph, found it very difficult 
to make it sound the letter “s”—“special,” he would speak into 
it, but “pecia,” “picia” was the only response he got. “It was 
enough to try the patience of a saint,” said he, “but I kept at it 
sixteen hours a day for seven long months, and at length I 
CONQUERED it.” 

Such courageous PATIENCE and energy would guarantee 
success to many a religious enterprise which is abandoned be¬ 
cause of HINDRANCES. 

EDISON and his PHONOGRAPH may well loom up before us 
when we feel DISCOURAGED. 

Pottle 204 

A frightful accident occurred on the Central Railway of New 
Jersey, by which twenty lives were lost and forty persons were 
seriously injured. The engineer was known as a sober, careful 
man. He saw the green signal, which told him that the next 
signal would be red, indicative of danger. 

This red signal he also saw, ran by it, and LOST his life and 
the lives of his passengers, because he chose to DISOBEY 
orders. 

It was found that engineers of fast trains had the HABIT of 
running by the DANGER signal, expecting to see the signal 
change at the last moment. 

But the signal did not change—did not turn safe that time, and 
though he tried to stop the train, it was too late. 

Many a man has tried the same experiment and had the same 
experience in his disobedience of the law of God. He hoped to be 
ABLE to keep right on and that the signal would “turn safe,” 
but the words of the engineer are the words that suit the case. 

So many of us see the “block” by which God tells us of our 
danger, but disregard it. 

Pottle 205 

A man and his wife, with her brother, were at White River, 
with a sled heavily loaded. They were trying to reach Dawson in 
their SEARCH for GOLD. 

The dogs were worn with travel and weary almost to death— 
an experienced traveler told them that the bottom was likely to 
drop out of the trail at any moment. 

“All the same,” is the reply, “we will go to Dawson.” 

The traveler watched them until they were a quarter of a mile 
away, crawling along over the ice. Suddenly he saw the back end 
of the sled drop down and the gee-pole, with one of the men 
clinging to it, jerk into the air—he heard a woman scream and 
saw the others attempt to TURN back; but the whole section of 
ice gave way—the bottom had dropped out of the trail. 

There are those who are experienced in the “Trails” of life and 
foolish is the one who disregards the warning and takes the 
trail for himself to test its danger. 


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Pottle 203 

2 Kings 2. 10.—Determined to (time of) asking. 

Gen. 49. 4.—Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. 
Ruth 1. 14.—But Ruth clave unto her. 

Luke 19. 4.—The man in the sycomore tree. 

Heb. 10. 36.—Ye have need of hold-on-to-it-iveness. 


pottle 204 

1 Sam. 15. 22.—To obey is better than sacrifice. 
Luke 4. 16.—As his custom was. 

Gen. 4. 9.—Am I my brother’s keeper? 

Rom. 14. 7.—None of us liveth to himself. 


Pottle 205 

Judg. 16. 21.—He did grind in the prison-house. 

Psa. 19. 13.—Keep back from presumptuous sin. 
Prov. 27. 12.—A prudent man seeth—but the simple. 


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pottle 206 

When quite a young man Rev. William Barker was assistant to 
the foreman of decorators in a large pottery factory, and he tells 
us of an incident that occurred in the factory. 

The foreman, John Foster, was a Christian and a great 
TEMPTATION came to him one day, while engaged in his work. 

The president of the pottery, who always prepared his recipes 
in a little private office, was called down stairs and thoughtlessly 
left his recipe book lying open on the desk. 

Foster had to go into the room for some colors, when, right 
before him, lying open on the table, he saw the book. 

It was a small book, containing a few SECRETS that were of 
immense VALUE—he could quickly copy them. 

There were plenty of men that would gladly avail themselves 
of an opportunity of going into business with him if he could 
produce a “china body” equal to that made at this celebrated 
pottery, acknowledged to be the best in the country. 

He could be rich—he could travel, a thing he yearned to do— 
he could educate his children and care for his old mother—and 
he would not have to work ten hours a day in the hot shop. 

All these thoughts passed through his mind as he stood there, 
looking at the open book, but soon the STRUGGLE ended and he 
grasped the book, closed it and held it up in the air and 
exclaimed: “VICTORY through Christ!” 

He then sought the president and handed him the book and 
John Foster still continued a HUMBLE decorator. 

By some means or other, through some training somewhere, 
there needs to he a great increase of the quality of character 
manifest in the DECISION of that NOBLE soul. 

pottle 207 

Some time ago in a Massachusetts town a property was ad¬ 
vertised for sale—a man, who had become involved through 
legitimate but unfortunate business ventures, was its owner, a 
highly respected citizen—a liberal supporter of religious and 
benevolent institutions—his misfortune aroused very general 
sympathy. 

At the beginning of the sale a carriage was seen approaching 
and the occupant on alighting held a hurried consultation. 

It was apparently too late to stop the sale, but the stranger 
bought in everything, and at the close of the sale his reason for 
so doing became known. 

When he was a young man he saw a prospect of SUCCESS in 
a business opening—he was eager to seize it, but lacked the 
necessary funds. 

The matter was laid before the now unfortunate man and the 
young man was assisted tp the amount of one thousand dollars, 
the sum of the entire savings of the other up to that time. The 
young man had no SECURITY save that of his good NAME. 

Prospering beyond expectation he soon repaid the amount, but 
when he learned indirectly of the stress of his ^benefactor, he 
hastened to his aid and turned his property over to him, with this 
GRATEFUL statement: “It is rightfully and deservedly yours.” 


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Pottle 206 

Prov. 16. 32.—He that ruleth his own spirit is greater. 

Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience. 

1 Cor. 10. 13.—With the temptation a way of escape. 

1 Cor. 15. 57.—Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory. 


Pottle 207 

Gen. 40. 23.—Yet did not the chief butler remember. 
Exod. 2. 20.—And where is he? 

Rom. 1. 14.—I am debtor to Greeks and Jews. 


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Pottle 208 

There is a tribe on the West coast of Africa whose king has a 
MANIA for collecting British war medals, and a London firm has 
a standing order to supply his sable majesty. 

This king owns a major-general’s tunic, on which are sown 
both back and front and from collar to tail medals and clasps 
from Waterloo down to the present. This garment the monarch 
PROUDLY sports on extra special state occasions. 

What a false IDEAL has this king, and yet he is not alone— 
there are many people in CIVILIZED lands who are willing to 
flaunt greatness or goodness without having passed through 
experiences of either. 

Many men are in this day, perhaps especially, gathering earthen 
TREASURE as greedily as this African is gathering medals. 

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During the last few years the attention of the government has 
* been attracted to the obstruction in Florida rivers by the Water- 
hyacinth—it is a very delicate LITTLE, ornamental flowering 
plant, but when multiplied by millions, it becomes a great 
HINDRANCE to navigation in these rivers. 

When even a large steamer at full speed strikes a floating 
bank of hyacinths, it comes almost to a standstill. 

The Government has asked to exterminate the plant, on the 
ground that it was a pest, and now it is found that many of the 
farmers of Florida, thinking the water-hyacinth a good cattle 
food, have been propagating it, and so the seeds that have been 
carried in from the land have become a PEST to the seamen. 

When once the inside truth is known, how oftentimes the SIN 
of one man is traceable to the SOWINGS of the man near him. 

How often the troubles of a son are traceable to the sowings 
of a father, and the heartaches of a daughter traceable to the 
sowings of her mother—be thou therefore thoughtful of thy 
plantings, not for thyself alone, but for those also who may be 
compelled to share the REAPING. 

Pottle 210 

The critics declare that Rubens had an absolute delight in 
representing pain, and they refer us to that artist’s picture of the 
Brazen SERPENT in the national gallery. 

The canvas is full of the pain—the fever, the contortions of 
the wounded and the dying—the writhing, gasping crowd is 
everything and the supreme instrument of CURE, the brazen 
serpent itself is small and obscure in the picture. 

It may be truthfully said, though it may not be gratefully 
accepted, that the manner of the great artist, though out of 
keeping with the spirit of the Gospel, is in harmony with a 
great deal of what passes as a PREACHING of the Gospel. 

It is a minister’s own interrogation as to whether the CROSS 
is relatively more conspicuous in sermons than the brazen serpent 
is in the picture of Rubens. 


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1 Cor. 11. 28.—Let a man examine himself. 

Rom. 14. 12.—Give an account of himself to God. 

3 John 1. 9.—Diotrephes who loveth the preeminence. 

1 John 2. 16.—The pride of life is not of the Father. 

1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart. (Ornaments.) 


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1 Cor. 8. 13.—I will eat no meat forever more. 

Gen. 19. 20.—Is it not a little one? 

Num. 32. 23.—Your sin will find you out. 

Prov. 23. 2.—A man given to appetite. 

1 Cor. 15. 33.—Evil associations corrupt morals. 
James 3. 5.—How great a matter a little fire kindleth. 


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John 3. 14.—As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. 
John 12. 32.—I, if I be lifted up, will draw. 

Col. 1. 18.—That he might have the preeminence. 


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In 1859 Garibaldi’s volunteers, some rich, some poor, were near 
Alessandria, on May 23. “The camp of the Alpine Huntsmen” 
was in complete confusion. 

The improvised SOLDIERS rushed to arms at the sound of 
the trumpet. “Quick, quick,” said the officers, “we are to start.” 

“Where are we going?” queried the soldiers. “That is the 
mystery. Garibaldi knows where, and that’s enough!” 

Garibaldi went through the ranks with words of encourage¬ 
ment to the weary, and in sympathy for the disheartened, and in 
person saw after every need. This motley host drove the Aus¬ 
trians in a twenty-four hour battle twenty miles up the Stelvio 
Pass—over the glaciers of the Ortler and back into Tyrol. 

Not only the most imprudent but the most unkind thing it 
would have been to tell these volunteers what lay before them. 
This belongs alone to Garibaldi, and so much of it as he cared 
to reveal to the officers who were to give his commands. 

The SILENCES of God as to the future life, and our lack of 
knowledge as to the tomorrow are upon the same basis. 

It would be no kindness to bewilder us with descriptions of 
that which is beyond our present ability to understand. 

We are to follow our leader as Garibaldi’s men followed him. 

Pottle 212 

The Philadelphia Ledger prints this incident of Mrs. Jules 
Ashland. She had worried along for a long time because her 
pretty three-year-old daughter Marie had never uttered a word 
that anyone could understand. The little one jabbered all the 
time, but everything she said was unintelligible. 

Mrs. Ashland is an invalid and has never been much in the 
baby’s company. Her husband is a traveling man and is away 
from hime most of the time, so it was that little Marie had spent 
all of her three years under the care of a nurse girl. 

So ALARMED did the mother become over the matter that she 
called in a throat specialist to examine Marie. It happened that 
the specialist understood the Finnish LANGUAGE, and the first 
thing that he heard upon entering the house was little Marie 
delivering a tirade in that LANGUAGE against her mother 
because she wouldn’t talk to her. 

The Doctor soon understood the trouble. The nurse was a 
Finnish girl and had always talked to the baby in the Finnish 
language, and that was the tongue that little Marie had learned. 

The Finnish nurse girl was soon looking for another place and 
little Marie is now learning to say Papa and Mamma in the 
English language with an American nurse. 

There is a lesson of wonderful suggestiveness in this incident. 
It is the suggestion that bad associations or bad books have 
TAUGHT many a child a foreign MORAL code. 

Parents must begin early if they would teach their children 
their own language and bring them into right HABITS of life. 

Another truth is here lifted up, in that when these parents 
knew, this Finnish nurse girl was looking for another place. 


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1 Cor. 13. 12.—Now we see through a glass darkly. 

John 15. 14.—My friends, if ye do. 

1 Sam. 15. 22.—To obey is better than sacrifice. 

Heb. 10. 39.—Who draw back unto perdition. 

Heb. 11.1.—Faith is assurance of (attainment of) the hoped-for. 


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Neh. 13. 24.—Half in the speech of Ashdod. 

Joel 1. 3.—Tell ye your children of it. 

Prov. 22. 6.—Train up a child—he will not depart. 
1 Cor. 15. 33.—Evil associations corrupt morals. 


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Pottle 213 

One of the noblest of Norman buildings in the world is Durham 
Cathedral, connected with the names of Cuthbert and Bede. 

On one of the doors is a heavy knocker and in a lodge within 
that portal a gate keeper was anciently stationed day and night 
to await the coming of any fugitive from justice or persecution 
who should raise that heavy knocker and wake the slumbering 
echoes of the porch in an appeal for sanctuary protection. 

Once within that iron-studded portal he was SAFE from his 
pursuers and received shelter and food until by REPENTANCE 
and REPARATION he had gained the right to return. 

Though the church is no longer a refuge for the fugitive from 
justice of man, it is still the great REFUGE for fugitives who 
seek to be delivered from the justice of God and to escape the 
PENALTIES of a broken law and at once to find a NEW life. 

Pottle 214 

A dying judge the day before his death and his departure to 
be with Christ said to his pastor: “Do you know enough about 
LAW to understand what is meant by joint-tenancy?” “No,” 
was the reply, “I know nothing about law.” 

“Well,” said the judge, “if you and I were joint-tenants on a 
farm I could not say to you, ‘that is your hill of corn and this is 
mine; that is your shock of wheat and this is mine; that is your 
blade of grass and this is mine,’ but we would have share and 
share alike in everything on the place. 

“I have just been lying here and THINKING with UNSPEAK¬ 
ABLE JOY that Jesus Christ has nothing apart from me; that 
everything he has is mine, and we will share and share alike 
through all eternity.” 

Ah, that is a subject of thought, splendid not only for the day 
before death but for the days that reach far back into youth. 

Pottle 215 

The Rev. J. A. Burkhead gives this personal incident. He says: 
“When I was a small boy I secured a young FOX, which I kept 
for a pet. I knew that the fox was an inveterate enemy of dogs 
and chickens, but by training I could get the dog and my pet 
hen to eat from the same dish with the fox. The three seemed 
to be the greatest friends and would tussel and roll over one 
another in their play, but the fox was always chained. 

“By EDUCATION I thought I had eradicated the fox nature, for 
he was now a daily COMPANION of the pet hen. 

“One morning I went out as usual to feed them, and lo! the 
chain was broken, the fox gone and fifteen of the finest chickens 
in the neighborhood were KILLED and their blood sucked by 
my domesticated fox.” 

So a sinner may come into the church; he may be trained; he 
may even eat at the Lord’s table, but the first good chance he 
gets he will show the “fox heart,” unless he has been BORN 
again. REGENERATION is the only thing that'counts. 


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Num. 35. 11.—Cities of refuge (miklot cities). 
Luke 11. 9.—Knock, it shall be opened unto you. 
2 Cor. 7. 11.—Sorrowed after a godly sorrow. 

Gen. 7. 1.—Come thou into the ark. 


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Rom. 8. 17.—Heirs of God—joint-heirs with Christ. 
Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is joy (life-refreshment). 

1 Pet. 1. 8.—Joy unspeakable and full of glory. 

Psa. 23. 4.—Through the valley of the shadow. 


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John 3. 7.—Ye must be born again. 

Jer. 17. 9.—The heart of man is desperately sick. 
Mai. 3. 3.—As a refiner and purifier of silver. 
Mark 7. 6.—Their heart is far from thee. 


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The Fossil Forests of the Yellowstone is a deep exposure of the 
volcanic rocks caused by the erosion of the Lamar River. It 
DISCLOSES several consecutive horizons of vegetable growth, 
separated from each other by lava flows, which completely buried 
the undergrowths and provided a foundation for those above. 
Beginning with the lowest it is clear that conditions prevailed at 
the time which were highly favorable to vegetable growth, and 
giant trees attained maturity. 

Finally this SEASON of Growth was rudely interrupted by 
the volcanic outburst of the eruption and the masses of ejected 
material overwhelmed and submerged the land. 

In this locality the heat was not intense enough to consume 
the trees, although it killed them; in the course of long ages 
since the percolation of siliceous waters has turned the organic 
forms into stone by the process of SUBSTITUTION. 

Some of these petrifications are very perfect, roots, barks, 
wormholes, and leaves are preserved with absolute fidelity. 

These “Fossil Forests” are an exact type of many a life as it is 
seen. Where once there was growth and beauty there is now 
found only the fossil remains of the burning. 

Sin has come in and covered the life with its ashes and swept 
over it with its burning lava, and where once was found valor 
and virtue and lilywork of manhood or womanhood, now we find 
vice, weakness, and that which speaks of BACKSLIDINGS in sin. 


pottle 217 

An interesting figure in English history was Lady Inglis, who 
was the heroine of Lucknow. She was with her husband, who 
commanded the garrison through the eighty-seven days of the 
siege of Lucknow and kept a diary those days. 

She tells us how, when the English soldiers entered the city, 
bringing RESCUE and relief, the whole city rang with SHOUTS 
of delight. 

And yet when a short, quiet looking, gray haired man, whom 
she knew at once as General Havelock, entered the Residences 
and shook hands with her, she was dumb and could scarcely 
respond to his greeting; although it was to her a moment of 
unmixed JOY she could find no means of expressing her feelings. 

How like this the experiences of great rejoicing in our religion. 
There is a deep peace and a great joy, but it is unspeakable. 

And were we once as near to death or to Satanic CAPTIVITY 
as the garrisons of Lucknow were, we should doubtless have fewer 
words and vastly greater EMOTION at the thought of RESCUE 
and at the mention of the name of Jesus. 


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Job 40. 4.—I am vile, what shall I answer thee? 

Jer. 3. 12.—Return thou backsliding Israel, sayeth Jehovah. 
Heb. 10. 39.—Who draw back unto perdition. 

2 Pet. 1. 5.—Add in your faith, valor. 

Eph. 6. 12.—Against principalities and powers. 


pottle 217 

1 Pet. 1. 8.—Who not having seen, ye love. 

Gal. 5. 22r—‘ The fruit of the spirit, joy (life refreshment). 

2 Cor. 9. 15.—Thanks for his unspeakable gift. 

1 Cor. 15. 57.—Thanks to God who giveth us the victory. 


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Pottle 218 

Ole Bull was making his way at one time through one of the 
great American forests and he came upon a hut in which dwelt a 
HERMIT. He had left his city home because DISAPPOINTED 
in business and had been living alone for years, his only com¬ 
panion being his old VIOLIN. 

Ole Bull stopped in the hut over night and in the shade of the 
firelight to entertain his guest, the old hermit took down his 
violin and played the simple pieces which he had learned. 

When he had finished playing the great musician asked him if 
he thought he could play. “I hardly think it possible;—it took 
me years to learn, and yet,” said he, “you might try.” 

The great violinist took the instrument, drew his bow across 
the strings and instantly the hut was filled with HARMONY. 

He played “America” and “HOME, sweet home,” until the old 
hermit sobbed like a child. 

How God surprises us sometimes at the music he brings out 
of some life from which no real music had ever come. 

Brother, you have given good heed and have tried to bring the 
music out of the God-fashioned violin of your life. Perhaps like 
the old hermit, you think you have succeeded well, but let Jesus 
have it for a little while, and like the old hermit you will know 
how far you have failed—how much of discord and how little 
harmony. O, give Him the chance that the Hermit gave Ole 
Bull—let him “try.” 


Pottle 219 

When Blucher was marching to the help of Wellington, at 
Waterloo, his troops faltered; “It can’t be done,” said they. “It 
must be done,” was his answer. “I have promised to be there— 
PROMISED, do you hear? You would not have me break my 
word.” He was at Waterloo, and to good purpose—he would not 
be HINDERED, for his promise had been given. 

Pottle 220 

The great French painter, Jean Leon Gerome, who died not long 
since, painted a picture of the CRUCIFIXION which is regarded 
as a masterpiece. You do not see in it the CROSS or the Christ, 
but simply the long shadow projected over the ground. It is thus 
briefly described: “He does not present the scene on Calvary, but 
the shadows of the crosses cast athwart a stormy sky, while the 
throng of Roman soldiery and Jewish populace are seen returning 
to Jerusalem. The somber shadow of the cross is cast over the 
hills and valleys in tremendous power.” 

It is the SPIRITUAL drama on Calvary that projects itself 
down the centuries into every nation’s history and reaches the 
islands of the sea, and the hearts of unnumbered hosts. 

This is what we see today, and it ought to add a zeal to our 
effort and an encouragement when difficulty crowds in before us. 

For after all, as the cross of Christ was the one thing on 
Calvary, it is the one thing of all the earth today. 


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John 6. 11.—And Jesus took the loaves. 

Exod. 4. 2.—What is that in thy hand? 

Eph. 3. 20.—Exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or 
think. 

Mark 2. 12.—We never saw it on this fashion. 


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Eccl. 5. 4.—Pay that which thou hast vowed. 

Gen. 49. 4.—Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. 

1 Cor. 15. 10.—I am what I am. 

2 Pet. 1. 5.—Add in your faith, valor. 

2 Kings 2. 10.—Determine to (time of) asking, if thou see me. 


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John 12. 19.—The world has gone after him. 
Mark 15. 25.—And they crucified him. 

John 12. 32.—I, if I be lifted up, will draw. 
John 3. 14.—As Moses lifted up the serpent. 


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Pottle 221 

A recent writer describes the strange ALLURING splendor of 
the beds of anemones which cover the floor of some western seas. 

These gaudy, dainty flowers look like blossoms from the garden 
of paradise, brilliantly colored and beautiful. 

But they are a totality of HYPOCRISIES. 

They are cruel, devouring monsters—let a poor fish only touch 
them, and a thousand poisoned threadlets start out, seize the 
victim and in a moment he is the prey of the innocent-looking 
blossoms. 

Under the secret ATTRACTIONS of much of our social, com¬ 
mercial, and religious life there are deadly SNARES that make 
prey of the UNWARY. 

Many a fair-looking friendship, festivity and recreation is only 
a TRAP, covered and concealed by anemone flowers. 

What one of us but needs the Divine wisdom to preserve us 
from these SNARES. 


pottle 222 

Dr. J. O. Peck, himself one of the most successful soul-winners 
w r hich the pastorate of the last generation produced, left this 
testimony, which every preacher ought to know by heart and 
every Christian worker ought to encourage himself with. 

Dr. Peck said: “If it were revealed to me from heaven that God 
had given me a certainty of ten years of life, and that as a 
condition of my eternal salvation I must win a thousand souls 
to Christ in that time—if it were further conditioned to this end 
that I might PREACH every day for the ten years, but might 
not personally appeal to the unconverted outside the pulpit, or 
that I might not enter the pulpit during those ten years, but 
might exclusively appeal to individuals, I would not hesitate one 
moment to accept the choice of PERSONAL effort as the sole 
means to be used in securing the conversion of the thousand 
souls as the condition of my salvation.” 


Pottle 223 

A child sees the CLOUD cover the sky and IMAGINES that the 
light is lost. How like that child are we; some trial comes and 
we imagine that the sun of righteousness is blotted out. We, as 
Luther once did, look as if God were dead, yet not so, the sun of 
righteousness still shines and shines for us. We need a “cloud 
X-ray” of faith and all our fears will flee away and we will wait 
with patience and with continuing joy for the rifting of the 
clouds and the clearing of the skies. 


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bottle 221 

2 Cor. 11. 14.—Satan as an angel of light. 

2 Thes. 2. 10.—With all deceivableness. 

1 Tim. 6. 9.—They that will be rich fall into a snare. 
1 Cor. 10. 12.—Let him that standeth take heed. 

Josh. 9. 4.—They did work wilily. 


pottle 222 

1 Thes. 5. 11.—Edify one another. 

Mark 16. 15.—Preach the gospel to every creature. 
Acts 20. 20.—From house to house. 


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Eph. 4. 14.—No longer children. 

Gen. 42. 36.—All these things are against me. 
Rom. 8. 28.—All things work together for good. 




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pottle 224 

John Brady, a former governor of Alaska, used to be a Pres¬ 
byterian minister, and first went to Alaska as a missionary to 
the natives. 

There soon came a time when he saw that the PREACHING 
of the Gospel had to be supplemented by lessons in trade and 
INDUSTRY, and according to the New York Evening Post he 
wrote one time as follows to a missionary society that was 
supporting him: 

“We have plenty of Bibles. What we need now is a saw-mill.” 

There is a recognition, more and more, of this principle in 
Christian RESCUE effort and in Christian life. 


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“If thou hadst known!” so spake the Saviour Lord 
To those who spurned his great life-giving Word, 

As o’er Jerusalem his tears were poured— 

“If thou hadst known!” 

“If thou hadst known!” Heaven-chosen, favorite race. 
What meant the lifting of his face, 

Thou couldst not have despised such wondrous grace 
“If thou hadst known!” 

Lord, make us know, “while it is called today,” 

The things that to our peace belong, and may 
We never hear thee sorrowing o’er us say, 

“If thou hadst known!” 

Salvation seeking only in the CROSS, 

May those eternal things our hearts engross 
For which we must count all things loss 
When we do know. 

Though now at best we know thee but in part, 

Yet all we can receive of what thou art, 

Do thou reveal to each believing heart 
That we may know. 

And suffer not that in dark hours of pain 
To DOUBT that thou wilt turn all grief to gain. 

And move thee, friend so faithful, to COMPLAIN 
“If thou hadst known!” 

For when we reach the presence of the king, 

“The half hath not been told,” our hearts shall sing: 
Such JOY had borne us as on eagle wing, 

If we had KNOWN. 


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2 Thes. 3. 10.—If any will not work neither let him eat. 
Exod. 20. 9.—Six days shalt thou labor. 


pottle 225 

Isa. 5. 13.—Into captivity because—no knowledge. 

Isa. 1. 3.—The ox knoweth, my people do not know. 
John 4. 10.—If thou knewest—he would have given me. 
Deut. 33. 12.—Dwell in safety—between his shoulders. 



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Pottle 226 

Those of you who were at the World’s Fair, Chicago, in 1893, 
will remember the electricity building, the door of which could 
only be opened in one way; and not as an ordinary door. 

There was only one way to get in, and that was to step on a 
mat outside the door and an electric current opened the DOOR. 

There is only one way to find admittance to the hearts or 
homes of people, and that is to stand face to face with them— 
seek out the doors of their HOMES—then, as if by electric magic 
the CLOSED heart will open wide its door and homes will 
WELCOME you. 

There is one way to open the door into God’s HOME—step out 
on the promise and a current from the throne will throw wide 
open the door. 


pottle 227 

Henry Varley, the great apostle of PURITY in England, de¬ 
clares: “It is mere PRUDERY to AFFECT a delicacy and a 
silence about that which is producing more IMMODESTY and 
IMMORTALITY than all things else.” 

He refers to the great tides of SENSUALITY that are seen but 
are unmentioned oftentimes from the lecture platform or the 
sacred desk, because their mention would not be popular to the 
MISGUIDED audiences. 

The existence of sixty-five Florence Crittenton Homes to 
RESCUE fallen girls is a demonstration that we need to 
AWAKE and need to speak out, even if for a time we BLUSH 
because of a message that ought sooner to have been delivered. 

And this fact is emphasized when we begin to think that sixty- 
five Florence Crittenton Homes does not express in any sufficient 
measure the NEED of RESCUE, but only a present ability. 

pottle 228 

During the summer of 1690 there was war in England and the 
soldiers were suffering very greatly. One evening, after a long 
march, they were so tired that they laid down for a sleep when it 
would have been wiser and better had they remained on WATCH 
for the ENEMY. 

Among the soldiers was a little drummer boy whose eyes were 
fast asleep, but just before he fell ASLEEP he had been eating 
his rations and some crumbs of bread had dropped on the head 
of his drum. 

A little wren, perched overhead, saw the crumbs and flew down 
to eat them, and as the wren hopped about on the drum the tap¬ 
ping of its beak WAKENED the little DRUMMER. He opened 
his eyes and was startled to see the enemy advancing. Quickly 
he beat the SIGNAL of ALARM and roused the soldiers. 

It was not the skill of the king, William III, that won that 
d a y_July 12 , 1690—the Battle of the Boyne. 

Had it not been for the LITTLE WREN the fortune of the day 
would surely have been different. 


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John 6. 37.—Him that cometh unto me in no wise cast out. 
Johh 4. 9.—How is it that thou asketh drink of me? 


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1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou an ensample in purity. 

2 Cor. 7. 1.—From all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 
Horn. 1. 26.—God gave them up unto vile affections. 


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Zech. 4. 10.—The day of small things. 

Gen. 19. 20.—Is it not a little one? 

Matt. 13. 25.—While men slept the enemy came. 
Neh. 4. 9.—Set a watch day and night. 

Gen. 3. 13.—The serpent beguiled me. 


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Perhaps you have heard of the “Virgin’s Kiss,” once used in the 
Spanish INQUISITION. It was an image of a beautiful VIRGIN, 
with outstretched arms, as if to proffer loving embrace. 

And the person to be executed was pushed forward to KISS 
that image, when lo! its arms enclosed him in a deadly embrace, 
piercing his body with a hundred hidden knives. 

What would you think of the wisdom of one who saw a 
thousand in that same embrace and looked upon their EXECU¬ 
TION, and then cast himself willingly into those arms, saying 
that he was the EXCEPTION—you would say, “a fool, a FOOL!” 

But be not too hasty in judgment. 

The devil has set up such an image in his great camp of 
REVELRY. He points you to the arms of PLEASURE out¬ 
stretched to receive you, but like the “Virgin’s Kiss,” this image 
also is supplied with a hundred HIDDEN knives—yea, with a 
hundred hundred, that shall pierce you through and through. 

You know it—you have seen it—you have seen it a thousand 
times, yet you walk up and cast yourself into the arms of the 
death-dealing image, and say: “I am the exception.” But you are 
not—for as surely as you walk within the pleasure camp of sin 
you will walk, perhaps soon, against those poisoned knives. 

The great drink habit is perhaps the greatest image and the 
most deceiving in the camp. 

Pottle 230 

There is an old familiar story of the man who went into the 
famous Gobelin tapestry works, in Paris, and standing behind 
he watched the skilled workmen, busy making a splendid piece of 
TAPESTRY—they had their hands filled with threads of almost 
every color, and were WEAVING them into what seemed to him 
a large UGLY fabric of patchwork. He said to his conductor, the 
Director of the LOOM, “I do not see any beauty in that piece of 
work.” The conductor answered, “No, not yet, but come again in 
a month and see it after it is finished.” 

At the time appointed he went back and saw the great piece of 
tapestry stretched out on the loom, but he was sorely disap¬ 
pointed at the jumble of colors, and said: “I am still unable to 
see any beauty in that work.” They went to the other side of the 
loom—how wonderful the beauty that met his. vision! What 
mingling of colors—what an exquisite DESIGN—he could find 
no words to express his admiration. 

Yes, a piece of tapestry is woven from the wrong side, and as 
the weaving proceeds, the WEAVER can only see the tangled ends 
and no design at all; without FAITH in his design he would soon 
grow disheartened, but he has confidence that in the working out 
of the design there will be an ultimate beauty. 

Today, weaving our web on the loom of life, we must not 
forget that we stand where is seen only the tangled ends. 

But when our weaving is ended and the tapestry is finished 
we shall be amazed, like the man in Paris, and shall ever be 
privileged to look upon the fabric from the side of its beauty. 


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Prov. 4. 15.—Avoid it. Pass not by it. Turn from it. 
1 Cor. 15. 33.—Evil associations corrupt good morals. 
Judg. 16. 21.—He did grind in the prison house. 
Num. 32. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you out. 


230 

Rom. 8. 28.—All things work together for good. 
Ruth 1. 20.—Call me Mara. 

Gen. 42. 36.—All these things are against me. 
John 13. 7.—Thou shalt know hereafter. 


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We are told that in Japan there is a certain kind of spider 
which throws its web over the telegraph wires, sometimes from 
tree to tree, or from the wire to the ground, and when a sufficient 
number of these webs have been spun it is impossible to send a 
telegraphic MESSAGE over the wire. 

And so the linemen must go out and snap the webs, which seem 
so INSIGNIFICANT in themselves, and then the current is 
again restored, and the message may be transmitted. 

There are oftentimes those things in life that seem as in¬ 
significant as these SPIDER webs, but by an aggregation of 
them the currents of God are hindered and messages from God 
are found impossible, and there is a LOSS to us both of peace 
and power. 

Not until we come out from the world and be SEPARATE 
can we expect all the letters, or even all the words, or even all 
the messages, of God to reach us. 


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There is in the state of Pennsylvania, along the Allegheny 
River, in Armstrong County, a miniature mountain fernery 
located in a sprt of canon-like gulch that reaches up some miles 
from the river. It is known as the Nicholson Run, and the road 
is known as the Nicholson Run road. This creek and road is one 
of the most perfect illustrations of love that might be observed— 
eleven times, in a short mile or two, the creek crosses the road 
and the road crosses the creek. If you walk in either way only 
a little time you will cross the other way and find yourself in the 
midst of it. Follow the road a little way, and you have crossed 
the run, and should you then turn and follow the creek in a 
very little space you will be in the midst of the road. 

And if we could only learn the lesson of God’s holy Book we 
would know that on the road love to God, we must soon and often 
cross the road love to man. 

And if in life we do not find the oft-recurring crossing, we 
may well stop and look about lest we have stepped to some side 
road that leads from the double but single road, with its double 
finger-boards of love painted in light. 

And like as along Nicholson Run on either side was wondrous 
beauty, so as we walk in this road of love to God and love to man, 
we shall find great beauty; on either side of us pines and ferns 
and flowers, with God’s bloom overhead and God’s blessing 
filling our lives with sweetest meditations and with unspeakable 
joy, and we shall often meet each other at the crossing of the 
ways. 

For though some of us walk to the left and others walk to the 
right, some in the love of God and some in the love of man, yet 
shall we often meet at the crossings and know that we walk in 
the ENSAMPLE way of LOVE, and when the crossings are all 
passed, we shall meet at the gate of love, to enter and refine 
with the ones who have passed on before us. 


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2 Cor. 6. 17.—Be ye separate, saith the Lord. 

James 1. 27.—Unspotted from the world. 

Gen. 19. 20.—Is it not a little one? 

Gal. 5. 9.—A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 
Gen. 3. 6.—She took of the fruit and did eat. 


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Luke 10. 27.—Thou shalt love the Lord and thy neighbor. 
1 John 4. 20.—He who loveth God, love his brother also. 
1 Tim. 4. 1, 2.—Be thou an ensample in love. 

Gal 5. 22.—The fruit of the Spirit, love (life-reach). 


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Rev. F. B. Meyer tells of a woman who was SICK and who 
took five grains of MORPHINE when she meant to take five 
grains of quinine—she at once became very sleepy. 

Her appearance so ALARMED them that they sent for a 
physician, and when the PHYSICIAN came they discovered the 
mistake, and he, with the husband and friends, endeavored to 
arouse her from the stupor of the drug. They shook her and 
sprinkled water on her, but all the time she begged to be let alone. 

“If I only get to sleep I will get well,” she would say, while 
the Physician said, “If she ever gets fairly to sleep she will never 
waken,” and COMPELLING her, they walked with her, one on 
either side, about the room through one whole night. Toward 
morning consciousness began to return, and she was SAVED. 

We do not wonder at this ANXIETY or this EFFORT on the 
part of friends, but we are amazed sometimes if friends become 
as interested in their loved ones when the drug of Sin begins to 
deaden their sensibilities, we think it FANATICISM if they seek 
to rouse their loved ones from their lethargy. 

Pottle 234 

In June of 1906, on the C. & M. Railroad, in Ohio, because of a 
spike placed between the rails, the train was DITCHED and 
greatly damaged, while the track was torn up quite a ways and 
with considerable expense was repaired and replaced. 

In 1907, on the B. & O. system, in Pennsylvania, the locomotive 
of a train was DITCHED and turned until at right angles with 
the track, and its headlight crowded in against the bank of a 
creek that lay across from the track. 

There are many trains DITCHED with great loss of property 
and with loss of life, but there are a thousandfold more LIVES 
ditched, with an infinite eternal loss, for a ditched life is like a 
ditched train, not only damaged, but for the time USELESS, a 
menace to other lives. 

Paul asked a seriously startling question of the Galatians when 
he said: “Ye did run well, who ditched you?” 

Pottle 235 

A missionary in China once heard a group of Chinamen dis¬ 
cussing China’s various RELIGIONS—at last one of the group 
said: “It is just as if a Chinaman were down in a deep PIT and 
wanted HELP to get out—Confucius came along and said, ‘If you 
had only kept my precepts, you would not have fallen into this 
pit.’—Buddha also came to the mouth of the pit, saying, ‘Ah! 
Poor Chinaman. If you were only up here where I am I would 
make you all right.’—then came Jesus, with tears in his eyes, and 
jumped into the pit and LIFTED the poor Chinaman out.” 

This is the true philosophy of Christianity and a life that 
comes to censure, like Confucius, or who comes to pity only, like 
Buddha, and does not either with censure or pity lift at the life 
of another, cannot be said to be truly Christian. 


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John 5. 40.—Ye will not come that ye might have life. 
Jer. 8. 22.—Is there no physician there? 

Heb. 3. 13.—The deceitfulness of sin. 


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Gal. 5. 7.—Who ditched you? 

1 Pet. 5. 8.—Whom he may devour. 

Eph. 5. 15.—See that you walk to a point. 

2 Kings 3. 16.—This valley full of ditches. 


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Psa. 40. 2.—Out of an horrible pit. 

1 John 4. 20.—He who loveth God, love his brother also. 
John 13. 15.—I have given you an example. 

John 11. 35.—Jesus wept (shed tears, not wailed). 

Luke 19. 5.—The Man who saw Zacchteus (interested). 


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“A Study in SIN,” or “A Thousand Years the Life of a Tribe.” 

B. C. 1715—Gen. 41. 52—Called Fruitful. 

B. C. 1689.—Gen. 48. 13-20—Preferred and Blessed. 

B. C. 1444.—Josh. 16. 10—Disobedient by Associates. 

B. C. 1425.—Josh. 17. 14-16—Covetous. 

B. C. 1143.—Judg. 12. 1-4—Covetous-quarrelsome. 

B. C. 839.-2 Chron. 25. 6-10—Rebuked. 

B. C. 726.—2 Chron. 30. 1-10—Scoffed at the Passover. 

B. C. 721.—Hosea 11. 8 to 12—Lamentation. 

B. C. 718.—2 Kings 17. 4-6—Captive in Assyria. 

The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, 

And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; 

And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, 
When the blue wave rolls nightly on blue Galilee. 

Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, 

That host with their banners at sunset were seen: 

Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath flown, 

That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. 

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast. 

And breathed in the face of the Foe as he passed; 

And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, 

And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still! 

And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, 

But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; 

And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, 

And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. 

And there lay the rider distorted and pale, 

With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; 

And the tents were all silent, the banners alone. 

The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. 

And the widows of Asher are loud in their wail. 

And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; 

And the might of the Gentile unsmote by the sword, 

Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord! 


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David’s Look—Psa. 121. 


Reverently—Psa. 95. 6. 
Repentantly—Psa. 51. 1 
Longingly—Psa. 42. 1. 
Confidently—Psa. 27. 3. 


Expectantly—Psa. 42. 11. 
Frequently—Psa. 55. 17. 
Gratefully—Psa. 30. 12. 
Rapturously—Psa. 47. 1. 


Professedly—Psa. 18. 49. 
So do thou look. 


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Exod. 20. 17.—Thou shalt not covet. 

Num. 32. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you out. 

Isa. 28. 20.—The bed is shorter—the covering narrower. 
Deut. 12. 30.—Enquire not after their gods. 

Ezek. 4. 16.—They shall eat bread by weight. 

Dan. 4. 17.—That the living may know. 


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Psa. 95. 6.—Let us kneel before Jehovah. 

Psa. 51. 1.—Have mercy upon me, O God. 

Psa. 42. 1.—As the hart panteth after the water brooks. 
Psa. 27. 3.—Though an host encamp against me. 

Psa. 42.11.—Hope thou in God—I shall yet praise Him. 
Psa. 55.17.—Evening and morning and at noonday. 

Psa. 30.12.—I will give thanks forever. 

Psa. 47. 1.—Oh, clap your hands—shout. 

Psa. 18. 49.—I will give thanks among the nations. 


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John McNeal tells the story of one of his friends who had 
reared an eagle with the chickens about the barnyard, and for 
this reason the eagle had never used its power of FLIGHT, nor 
seemed to know of its ABILITY to soar in the heavens. 

The friend made up his mind to move to another part of the 
country. The eagle he did not care to take with him, and so set 
about to TEACH it the art of flight. 

He lifted it up in his hands, held it for a moment, but the 
eagle quickly fell to the ground—he threw it above his head, but 
the fall was only the more severe—after many trials, in despera¬ 
tion, he put it upon the fence and held it for a moment—when 
the eagle lifted its head and caught one glimpse of the SUN. 
Its eyes had ever been turned downward, and it seemed to be in 
IGNORANCE of the sun and the SKY. 

Suddenly it pushed out one wing, then another, lifted its head 
and with a shriek and a spring bounded away from the fence, 
soaring high and higher until lost to sight in the face of the sun. 

There are many of such “eagle-souls” in the world of today, 
all the time busy with the earthen, and like the eagle are 
ignorant of that which is above. They need to look up once and 
get one good glimpse of the Sun of Righteousness. 

pottle 239 

On the coast of Maine a FISHERMAN took his little daughter 
out with him to fish, and then feeling that he ought to go farther 
out from the shore, he left the child upon a rock which rose out 
of the sea—she seemed SAFE enough, and she would have been 
except for the fact that the NIGHT came on and the mists were 
heavy; the father became so interested in his fishing that the 
night had almost settled ere he began to think about his child, 
and fisherman though he was, he had forgotten the TIDE. 

After a long search he found the rock where his child had 
been left, but the rock where he left her was not high enough for 
the tide, and the child was swept into the sea. 

They say that the Father became an aged man at once, and his 
hair turned gray and the sentence of his life from then on was, 
“Oh, that I had kept near enough to hear her call! Oh, that I 
had kept near enough to hear her CALL!” 

It may be fish, it may be something else that interests. 

Pottle 240 

Charles Spurgeon tells us how Dickens was kept from becoming 
a SPIRITUALIST—he went to a seance and asked for the spirit 
pf Lindley Murray—when the spirit in due time appeared, 
DICKENS inquired, “Are you Lindley Murray?” The spirit 
replied, “I are.” Dickens knew at once that it was all a fraud, 
for Lindley Murray would have used good grammar. 

Though there is no genuine in the seance hall, there is a 
GENUINE in the spiritual, but there are wolves in sheep’s cloth¬ 
ing, even outside of seance halls. 


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Phil. 3. 20.—Our citizenship is in heaven. 

Gen. 1. 27.—In the image of God created he him. 
Col. 1. 18.—Set your minds on the things above. 
Heb. 12. 2.—Every weight and sin—by looking. 


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1 Tim. 5. 8.—Worse than an infidel. 

Acts 2. 39.—Unto you and to your children. 

Joel 1. 3.—Tell ye your children of it. 

Isa. 21. 12.—And also the night. 

1 Kings 20. 40.—Busy here and there; he was gone. 


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Matt. 24. 24.—Deceive, if possible, the elect. 

2 John 1. 7.—Many deceivers are entered into the world. 
John 10. 5.—A stranger will they not follow. 

Eph. 4. 14.—Carried about by every wind. 


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The Rev. W. F. Wilson, pastor of the Wesley Methodist Church 
of Hamilton, Ontario, tells of an incident in that field as follows: 
“I first met Mrs. Charlotte Goodwin, commonly known as 
“Granny,” in the summer of 1897, just after coming to Hamilton. 
I called on a very warm August afternoon at the little frame 
house where Granny lived—found her smoking a clay pipe, her 
only companion being the little dog. 

“Well, Granny,” I began, “what is your nationality?” “I was 
born in Norfolk, England.” “They say you are the oldest person 
in Hamilton.” “I guess I am.” “How old are you?” “One 
hundred and six years,” she replied. “And do you live alone?” 
“Oh, no. My boy, Abe, lives with me.” 

“And how old is he?” “Going on seventy.” “An old boy,” I 
observed. She answered: “Yes, but I like him just the same.” 

There was but the one room—a dish of sour milk was on the 
table and numerous flies had found their way into it. I said: 
“It is hard to keep milk sweet this warm weather, Granny.” 

“Indeed it is, and I only get a pint every other day.” 

I said: “Well, that won’t do. You must have sweet milk every 
day, besides some LITTLE girls in my church are going to bring 
some little dainties down for you.” 

They VISITED her regularly for some weeks, washing and 
mending, besides PROVIDING abundantly for her physical needs. 
On my next visit she was in great joy and said: “Them’s nice 
little gals you sent to see me; they are so kind and good.” 

“Yes, Granny, those little GIRLS are your friends and are 
going to look after you as long as they live.” 

Tears started from her eyes as she asked with a tremulous 
voice, “And why will they do this for me?” I replied: “Because 
they LOVE Jesus and for his sake they have learned to love you.” 

“I never belonged to any church,” said she, “and know very 
little about ’em.” “Oh, never mind that. Granny, Jesus loves 
you; wants you to be his CHILD.” “Does he want me?” 

“Yes, Granny, he wants you. Don’t you think you could TRUST 
him and take him as your Saviour?” She waited a moment, and 
then said, “Yes, my Lord, I will, I will.” 

In company with others, on the first Sabbath of May, in 1899, 
at the age of 108, she publicly united with the Wesley church, 
and for the first time in her life partook of the Lord’s SUPPER. 

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Rev. Ray E. Kipp, writing from Quiongoa, West Africa, says: 
“Last Sunday we took our MISSIONARY COLLECTION. 

“One of the little boys subscribed sixty cents—more than any 
of the other natives except two. When I asked him where he 
would get so much money, he said: ‘From my spending money. 
I get nine cents a month for not being tardy at school or at 
chapel, and I can go without some of my clothes.’ And he did. 
Calculate, if you will, how long he would be in paying his 
offering, even thought the whole nine cents a month were given 
to the Lord.” 


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Dan. 12. 3.—They that turn many, shall shine. 

Isa. 11. 6.—A little child shall lead them. 

Rom. 2. 4.—The goodness of God to a change of mine. 
Luke 10. 27.—Love the Lord and thy neighbor. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is—love (life-reach). 


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2 Sam. 24. 24.—That which doth cost me nothing. 
Mai. 3. 10.—Bring ye all the tithes. 

Prov. 11. 25.—The liberal soul shall be made fat. 

2 Cor. 9. 15.—Thanks for his unspeakable gift. 


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The Rev. H. W. Pope, secretary of Northfield extension, tells 
Of a physician who told him of the occasion of his conversion. 

In three different cities, at intervals of about a year, some one 
put into his pocket a little blue card containing the words, “Have 
you a HOME in heaven, where the angels are, and where your 
MOTHER is?” The first two cards set him THINKING, but the 
third one, soon after he had lost his mother, lead him to Christ. 

Perhaps no one of the three people, if there were three, knew 
that they were supplementing each other’s work in different 
cities, but this physician knew, and God knew. 

We can scarcely guess at the good that is done by SILENT 
preaching, or by those who speak only a LITTLE word. 

pottle 244 

William Modie tells a story to show that even when men try to 
oppose God’s will they are thwarted and the blessing goes to the 
one who honors Him. 

He says there were in Rome two BLIND men, one of whom 
cried in the streets of the city: “He is helped whom God helps,” 
but the other, with more DIPLOMACY, cried as he went: “He is 
HELPED whom the king helps,” and this they did day after day, 
until the emperor heard it so often that he caused a loaf of 
bread to be filled with pieces of gold, and sent it to the man who 
had HONORED him. 

The beggar felt the bread—noticed how heavy it was, and 
thought it was indigestible—so he offered it to the other BLIND 
BEGGAR for a few pennies. The latter bought it, took it home, 
found the TREASURE, and from that day ceased to beg. 

But the other continued to beg and still cried through the city: 
“He is helped whom the king helps.” 

The EMPEROR summoned him to his presence, and asked: 
“What hast thou done with the loaf that I lately sent thee?” 

The beggar replied: “I sold it to my friend, because it was 
heavy and did not seem well risen.” Then the emperor said: 
“Truly he is helped whom God helps,” and he turned the blind 
man from him. 

Pottle 245 

A minister writes that a man came up to him one day at the 
end of the service in a frontier town, and said: “Say, parson, that 
service and SERMON was grand. I wouldn’t have missed ’em 
for five dollars.” 

The minister suggested that he hand him the difference between 
the amount he had put in the COLLECTION basket and the sum 
he mentioned for MISSIONARY work—he stopped, looked at the 
clergyman, and then showly pulled from his pocket four dollars 
and ninety cents, which he handed over without a word. 

That frontiersman is a type of a shameful and shameless 
crowd who visit sanctuaries and receive of ministers and of 
God and being almost void of the spirit of David, their motto is: 
“I will not offer to the Lord that which costs me.” 


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Gal. 6. 9.—For in due season we shall reap. 

Zech. 4. 10.—The day of small things. 

2 Kings 13. 19.—Thou shouldst have smitten five or six times. 
2 Cor. 12. 14.—The third time I am ready to come. 


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Ezra 8. 22.—I was ashamed to require of the king. 
Psa. 37. 3.—And verily thou shalt be fed. 

Gen. 50. 20.—But God meant it unto good. 

Gen. 1. 1.—In beginning God created. 

Deut. 33. 12.—Dwell in safety—between his shoulders. 
Job 1. 9.—Doth Job fear God for naught? 


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2 Cor. 9. 15.—Thanks for his unspeakable gift. 
Luke 21. 4.—She of her penury hath cast in. 

Mai. 3. 10.—Bring ye all the tithes. 

Prov. 11. 25.—The liberal soul shall be made fat. 


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In the history of the Romans is recorded an event that parallels 
the treatment that many show today toward the Lord Jesus. 

By Bellarius, a great general, castles were saved—cities were 
relieved—homes continued in security—the Roman nation 
strengthened—afterwards this same Bellarius knocked at the 
castles which he had saved from ruin; there was no admittance. 

He came to gates of cities which he had relieved from siege; 
there was no admittance. He stood at the doors of homes which 
he had made twice grand and secure, no admittance. In each 
case the same INGRATITUDE, the DOORS were shut. 

We have indignation at such ingratitude, and yet a worse is 
found in the life that shuts the door upon the Christ who knocks 
without, for he has done more for us than ever BELLARIUS did 
for Rome, and has a better claim upon our lives and homes. 

pottle 247 

An officer rushed up to Napoleon Bonaparte as the troops were 
fleeing from the field of battle, saluted, and said: “Sire, we have 
lost the battle.” NAPOLEON, looking at the sun, replied: “Well, 
we have time to win another.” Reforming his lines, he rallied 
the fugitives, and led them on to a glorious VICTORY. 

We may not be Napoleons, but on our fields of battle we can 
emulate his example. Though defeated in our purposes, though, 
perhaps, falling into temptation, we should not be downcast or 
despairing. With faith in God’s mercy and relying on the 
strength of his Spirit, let us trust his promises, and push onward 
to further struggle and grand victory. 

pottle 248 

In 1645, when Hugo Grotius, the great Dutch jurist, was about 
to die, he said: “I would gladly give all my LEARNING for the 
simple FAITH of my UNLETTERED servant.” 

Much learning may or may not add to a man’s FAITH. The 
man must see to it that the fibers of faith are woven into the 
fabric of his mind and brain. Really pitiable are the learned 
who have less faith in God than their unlettered servants. 

Pottle 249 

A young man away from home, slept in the same room with 
another young man, a stranger. Before retiring for the night he 
KNELT down, as was his HABIT, and silently prayed. 

This noble EXAMPLE aroused the other and was the means 
of his conversion. After a life of rare usefulness in old age he 
testified: “Nearly half a century has rolled away, with all its 
events, since then, but that little chamber—that humble couch— 
that silent praying YOUTH are still present to my mind and 
will never be forgotten through the ages of eternity.” 

When would the greatest of SERMONS have so effected that 
life as that royal LOYALTY did that night in that bed-chamber? 


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Rev. 3. 20.—I stand at the door and knock. 

Exod. 2. 20.—And where is he? 

2 Kings 5. 14.—What then can be done for her? 

Gen. 40. 23.—Yet did not the chief butler remember. 


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1 Sam. 7. 12.—Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. 

2 Kings 13. 19.—Thou shouldst have smitten five or six times. 
Josh. 13. 1.—Much land to be possessed. 



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Eph. 2. 8.—Faith—it is the gift of God. 

Luke 10. 21.—Reveal them unto babes. 

1 Cor. 3. 18.—A fool that he may be wise. 

1 Cor. 1. 20.—Where the joint-seeker of this world. 


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Gal. 6. 9.—In due season we shall reap. 

Dan. 6. 10.—Prayed as he did aforetime. 

Matt. 26. 72.—He denied with an oath. 

Luke 9. 26.—Of him shall the Son of man be ashamed. 
Rom. 1. 16.—I am not ashamed. 


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Near the entrance of old Blandford Cemetery, in Petersburg, 
Virginia, there is an old church, which was used as a place of 
WORSHIP until 1792. It is slowly crumbling to dust. The out¬ 
side is completely covered with ivy, and a prettier sight cannot 
be seen than this old cemetery, where all is quiet, and this old 
church. On the interior walls of the church are written the 
following beautiful lines, that seem almost prophetic: 

Thou art crumbling to the dust, old pile! 

Thou art hastening to thy fall. 

And round thee in thy loneliness, 

Clings the IVY to thy wall. 

And sadly sighs the wandering wind 
Where oft in years gone by, 

Prayer rose from many hearts to Him, 

The Highest of the high. 

The tramp of many a BUSY foot 
That sought thy aisles is o’er. 

And many a weary heart around 
Is stilled forever more. 

How doth AMBITION’S hope take wings? 

How droops the spirit now? 

We hear the city’s distant din, 

The dead are mute below. 

The sun that shone upon their paths 
Now gilds their lonely graves, 

The zephyrs which once fanned their brows 
The grass above them waves. 

Oh! could we call the many back 
Who’ve gathered here in vain— 

Who’ve careless roved where we do now, 

Who never meet again. 

How would our very hearts be stirred, 

To meet their earnest gaze, 

The lovely and the beautiful— 

The lights of other days. 

There are TEMPLES of LIFE like this where once the song 
and worship—the sermon and vow were heard, where the atmos¬ 
phere was clear and the spirit of God was present, but now in 
these “Life Temples” the atmospheres are dark and damp, the 
GRACE and GLORY are departed—without maybe the ivy, but 
within is decay. 


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Luke 12. 20.—Whose shall these things be? 

Jer. 8. 20.—The harvest is past, the summer ended. 
2 Cor. 4. 18.—The things seen are temporal. 

1 Cor. 6. 19.—Your body is a temple. 

Phil. 3. 13.—This one thing I do. 


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The Rev. Frank DeWitt Talmage tells of a family in the church 
in Pittsburg, Pa., over which he was pastor, which emphasizes 
the chain of HEREDITY. The FAMILY were, for generations, 
bridge builders and contractors. 

Some years ago the grandson had a contract to build over a 
railroad bridge. As he dug down into the foundations to replace 
some of the old masonry, much to his SURPRISE he found there 
a tool chest marked with his own initials, “R. S.” 

The tool chest had belonged to his own grandfather. 

So when we begin to dig down into the foundation of LIVES 
we would always find, if life were of a material sort, the RELICS 
of GENERATIONS—our spiritual prosperities are built upon the 
catacombs, and all this of which we are possessed has its 
foundation in the tombs of our ANCESTORS. 


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When, in 1904, the fire was raging in Baltimore, beyond 
CONTROL, firemen were called from New York to assist. 

Afterwards Fire Commissioner Hayes was interviewed about 
the chances of such a conflagration in New York. He mentioned 
the facilities he had at his service, and said: “All those things 
count a whole lot, because the only way to Fight a big FIRE 
like that is to put it out while it is still a comparatively small 
fire—after all the only SAFE way to handle a big fire is never to 
give it a chance to get big—kill it while it is YOUNG—that 
accounts for the number of third alarm calls—it is a great deal 
better to call out eight companies and send all but two of them 
back, than to call two and find that you NEED eight.” 

Killing out VICE and SIN when they are LITTLE is the 
equally wise way. 

Call in God at FIRST to fight the fire in your members. 

Do not call in friends and loved ones, thinking they can put 
out the fire. It will be like calling out two companies when you 
are certain to NEED eight—neither be so foolish as to think you 
can quench the flame yourself. 

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A minister’s wife in the state of Ohio once, in speaking of her 
FAMILY, then grown to manhood and womanhood, exclaimed, in 
a sort of agony: “I would give anything if I had these last twenty 
years of my LIFE to live over again.” 

Why? Because she had in measure, yes, in considerable meas¬ 
ure, been NEGLIGENT of her duty at HOME, and now she was 
spending days in TREMBLING and in tears because of two lives 
that were already almost, if not altogether, PROFLIGATE. 

But it was too LATE. A WAYWARD son and a wanton 
daughter cannot be turned to SAFE paths of life when the years 
of childhood have been used to bring about habits of PRODI¬ 
GALITY and sin. 


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2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy-grandmother, thy mother, and thee. 
Luke 1. 17.—The hearts of fathers to their children. 
Ezek. 18. 2.—The children’s teeth are set on edge. 
Neh. 13. 24.—Half in the speech of Ashdod. 


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Eph. 6. 12.—We fight against principalities and powers. 
James 3. 8.—The tongue no man can tame. 

Heb. 2. 3.—How shall we escape if we neglect? 

Gal. 5. 23.—The fruit is temperance (Life-control). 

1 Cor. 15. 57.—Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory. 


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Joel 1. 3.—Tell ye your children of it. 

1 Sam. 3. 13.—And he restrained them not. 

Ezek. 18. 2.—The children’s teeth are set on edge. 

2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy grandmother, thy mother, and thee. 


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A press dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal., in April, 1907, de¬ 
scribes the RESCUE of a New York tourist from extreme PERIL. 

The tourist had worked his way down a steep cliff, with the 
object of reaching a bathing place at the mouth of an unfre¬ 
quented canon in the vicinity of Catalian Island. 

When he reached the narrow ledge lje felt the rock crumbling 
beneath his feet. He tried to back and to go forward, but 
every step seemed equally dangerous. His only resource was to 
get close to the cliff side and WAIT for RESCUE. 

He was afraid to move lest the entire ledge should fall. There 
he crouched for two days and nights without sleep. 

He saw boating parties pass far beneath him and CALLED to 
them, but there was none to HEAR. 

Hungry, thirsty, almost dead for lack of sleep, he at last at¬ 
tracted a party of fishermen, who came to his RELIEF. 

He had no sooner reached the solid ground than he swooned 
away from weakness and from nervous strain. 

In the MORAL sphere men are very often just as FOOL¬ 
HARDY as this man. They tread PATHS of SIN until they 
reach crumbling ledges, and if they are ever saved at all it is 
after AGONIES of soul and as by fire. 


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The organization of the Red Cross is one of the historic world 
facts of greatest importance. 

After the bloody battle of Solferino, fought by Austrian and 
French forces in 1859, 37,000 men LAY WOUNDED upon the 
battlefield; the neighboring towns were entirely incompetent for 
such emergency, and so the fallen lay upon the ground until gan¬ 
grene, lockjaw, and exhaustion released them from their agony. 

Among the civilians who happened to be present in the 
BATTLE was Henri Durant, a Swiss gentleman of means, who 
had been traveling in North Italy. Noticing the distress upon 
the battlefield, he saw that some greater provision was necessary. 

He undertook to travel from court to court in Europe to 
obtain support for an international organization, whose duty it 
would be to care for the WOUNDED and dying in time of war. 

Four years later, in 1863, a conference was held at Geneva of 
the representatives of the great powers, and in October 24, 1864, 
they ratified an agreement by which hospitals, hospital material, 
medical officers and attendants became NEUTRAL. 

The RED CROSS movement of today represents humanity and 
brotherhood, and its existence is not only a great credit to the 
nations, but a wonderful tribute of the sympathy and ability of 
Henri Durant who, in a strange land, failed not to see and 
SYMPATHIZE with the suffering of other lands. 

There is a greater battlefield than SOLFERINO—more bloody, 
extending the whole wide world around, and there is need of a 
SPIRITUAL “Red Cross” movement in which the spirit of Henri 
Durant is found. 


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1 Cor. 3. 15.—Saved yet so as by fire. 

2 Sam. 18. 29.—Is the young man safe? 

Josh. 2. 19.—Whosoever shall go out of the doors. 


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1 John 4. 20.—He who loveth God love his brother. 
Eph. 3. 15.—The whole family is named. 

Matt. 6. 9.—Our Father. 


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A Scotch minister one Sunday in Glasgow was trying to illus¬ 
trate the LOVE of Christ, and told the story of a MOTHER who 
took her little boy one night and went over one of those Scotch 
hills. The snow came—she lost her way—and finally lay down, 
exhausted—covering the baby with her shawl. 

The next morning she was found dead, but the baby still alive. 
Said the minister: “If that little boy is alive today he is a man 
thirty or forty years old. I have not seen him for thirty years, 
but if he is living and THINKS of that story, don’t you think his 
heart goes out with love to that MOTHER?” 

“He would be a most miserable mortal if he did not love the 
MEMORY of that mother, and every time he thought of her he 
would unconsciously THANK God. You, friend, are worse than 
that ungrateful SON if you do not love the Christ.” 

Soon after that day the minister received word to visit a dying 
man in the city. The sick man said to him: “I am the boy you 
told of in the sermon. I have been a miserable, WANDERING 
wretch, but I came home to Glasgow and heard you tell that story. 

“I did LOVE that MOTHER, but when you added that I was 
treating Christ in that way, I couldn’t get away from it. 

“Do you think he will RECEIVE and FORGIVE me?” 

The minister assured him that it was possible, and the man 
died in that assurance. 

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There is living in a town In Pennsylvania a very RICH man—* 
perhaps the only ARMLESS and LEGLESS MILLIONAIRE on 
earth. 

His arms were AMPUTATED below the elbows and his legs 
below the knees more than twenty years ago. 

He walks with great difficulty on two automatic legs, made in 
Vienna and ingeniously fitted up with mechanisms that aid his 
locomotion—he also has two mechanical forearms, the hands of 
which enable him to hold a handkerchief or newspaper and to 
pick up articles. These four artificial limbs cost him $25,000 and 
are perhaps the most perfect of their kind in the world. 

There are many things that MONEY will not buy, and those 
who have perfect bodies and the use of all their faculties have 
the greatest WEALTH and should always give THANKS. 

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Among the oaks that line the shores of Merry-meeting Bay, on 
the coast of Maine, is a colony of eagles. They subsist largely 
on fish—almost any day they may be seen on some tree near the 
water’s edge, silently waiting. At last a fish-hawk succeeds in 
bringing up a fish and the EAGLE starts in pursuit. Swifter 
than the HAWK, he overtakes it, and to escape, it is compelled to 
drop its prey, which is easily caught in the talons of the eagle, 
who swiftly flies to the shore with the STOLEN meal. 

There are business men who rely on getting their LUXURIOUS 
LIVING by stealing the hard-earned profits of others. 


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Judg. 16. 22.—The hair of his head began to grow. 

2 Chron. 15. 3.—A long time without, but when they turned. 
Acts 28. 6.—After they looked, they changed their minds. 
Exod. 2. 20.—And where is he? 

2 Sam. 9. 12.—Mephibosheth eateth as one of the king’s sons 
Psa. 65. 9.—The river of God is full of water. 


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Mark 8. 36.—What profit if a man gain and lose? 
Luke 12. 20.—Whose shall these things he? 

Heb. 9. 22.—Without blood, is no remission. 

Mark 9. 45.—If thy foot offend thee. 


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2 Thes. 3. 10.—If any will not work* 

2 Cor. 4. 2.—Renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. 
Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience. 
Luke 19. 4.—The man in the sycomore tree. 

Luke 16. 20.—There was a certain beggar. 


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In India the 23d regiment had been SWINDLED out of their 
pay by an under-officer. They had received their rations, but 
their pay had been kept back by men who had spent it in 
gambling—they resolved next morning as a protest to DISOBEY 
that officer, march to the general’s house and lodge a petition 
against him. In the morning the regiment was called, but when 
the officer gave command they refused to OBEY. 

Every tenth man was put in prison, but the regiment still stood 
fast—then falling into line, without command, they went off the 
six miles to the General. The General thought their petition was 
right, but could not permit their INSUBORDINATION. 

“What shall I do?” he asked himself. “The petition must be 
granted, but it cannot be in this way.” So his answer was: “You 
will get your answer in the morning in the barracks yard.” 

Next morning the bugle sounded to call the 23d to fall in—the 
men appeared—the general was there, but at his back was the 
black SEPOY army in full force; cannon, with muzzles grim and 
bare, and cavalry with drawn sabers. 

The General lifted his voice in command: “23d handle arms!” 
They did it. “Ground arms!” It was done. Then he ordered 
the bugles to be sounded and the Sepoy army drove the 23d from 
their weapons, and when they were STRIPPED and DISARMED 
for their DISOBEDIENCE and made PRISONERS of war—the 
general said: “I forgive you. Your petition is granted.” 

This historic occurrence is reproduced thousands of times in 
the moral and spiritual world. Men think they can obtain their 
desires and right wrongs independent of the law, only to find 
that they cannot receive the blessing of God until they are 
stripped and “prisoners of war” because of disobedience. 

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A minister tells us of preaching in one of the colleges of New 
England. At the close of the service he announced he would be 
glad to meet all the boys who would talk with him. 

One of them came to him and said: “Wouldn’t you like me to 
show you around to my room?” I saw something was troubling 
him, and said: “Why shouldn’t we talk a few minutes about 
PERSONAL RELIGION?” I noticed tears in his eyes, as he 
said: “Do you know, yesterday was my twenty-first BIRTHDAY?” 

“Early in the morning I had a letter—MOTHER had written it 
just so it would come at the right time—and she said: ‘Are you 
going to pass the DAY without becoming a Christian? Take a 
stand and go and TELL somebody about it before night.’ ” 

“Well, then, my dear boy,” I said, “the Lord has brought you 
and me together here tonight.” 

I prayed and I asked him to pray. The next morning, though 
it was cold and snowy, he met me as I drove to the station, and 
with a LIGHT in his FACE he said: “Oh, it is all SETTLED. I 
settled it last night before I went to bed, and I thank God.” 

This is but one of a multitude of instances of the PERSONAL 
word that is the means of opening the door to the Saviour. 


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John 15. 14.—Ye are my friends if ye do. 

1 Sam. 15. 23.—Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. 
1 Sam. 15. 22.—To obey is better than sacrifice. 


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Acts 8. 29.—Join thyself to this chariot. 

2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy grandmother, thy mother, and thee. 
Acts 26. 22.—Witnessing both the small and great. 

Luke 9. 26.—Of him the Son of man ashamed. 

Eccl. 12. 1.—Remember thy creator in youth. 

Prov. 31. 28.—Her children call her blessed. 


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The Four Ways of Saying It. 

1. “The sword of the Lord!” (The Pantheist.) 

2. “The sword of Gideon!” (The Atheist.) 

3. “The sword of Gideon and the Lord!” (The Presumptive.) 

4. “The sword of the Lord and Gideon!” (The CONQUEROR.) 

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Nature finds abundant illustration of law counteracting law. 

The law of GRAVITATION may be said to be universal. 
Stones never rise unless a force SUPERIOR to gravitation lifts 
them up, and if thrown into the air they fall as soon as the force 
is spent by which they were thrown, and yet we find the trees 
persist in spite of this law in lifting themselves out of the earth 
and holding themselves erect and thrusting out their branches 
SKYWARD in apparent freedom of this law. 

The explanation is that there is a HIGHER law that belongs 
to the oak and acorn, but does not belong to the pebble or the 
stone. Bury a pebble and it will obey the law of gravitation, but 
the buried acorn or the buried wheat corn has in it a vital 
FORCE which is superior to gravitation. 

This same principle explains why one man GROVELS in his 
SIN and another is lifted to nobility like the “sons of God.” 

How is it with thee? Is the vital principle of the life of Jesus 
Christ and power of God present to enable thee to “stand upon 
thy feet,” that God may speak to thee as with a man? 

Pottle 263 

Two little girls were playing with their dolls in the corner of 
the NURSERY and singing as they played, and this is the song: 

Safe in the arms of Jesus, 

Safe on his gentle breast, 

There by His love o’ershadowed, 

Sweetly my soul shall rest. 

The mother was busy writing, stopping now and then to listen 
to the little ones’ talk. 

“Sister, how do you know you are SAFE?” said Nelly, the 
younger of the two. “Because I am HOLDING Jesus with both 
my hands—tight!” replied the sister. 

“But that isn’t safe,” said Nelly. “Suppose Satan came along 
and cut your two hands off!” 

The older sister looked troubled for a few moments and thought 
seriously, then her face shown with JOY as she cried out, “Oh, 
I forgot! I forgot! Jesus is holding me with his two hands and 
Satan can’t cut him off, so I am safe.” 

These were CHILD words, but the thought is the thought of 
the wise, and he only is safe who relies, as these children did, 
but like them, we sometimes “Forget,” and need to readjust our 
FAITH. 


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Judg. 7. 20—Of the Lord and Gideon. 

Psa. 19. 13.—Keep back from presumptuous sin. 


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1 Chron. 9. 4.—Jabez more honorable than brothers (prayer). 
Psa. 8. 4.—What is man? 

Matt. 6. 9.—Our Father who art in heaven. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—We are ambitious. 

Phil. 3. 20.—Our citizenship is in heavem 


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1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou an ensample in faith. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is faith (Life-resource). 

Deut. 33.12.—Dwell in safety, between his shoulders. 


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Many efforts have been made to get along without God, but 
none has succeeded better than that made in Corea about 
eighteen years ago, when the high class STUDENTS of the 
Royal College of Seoul, which opened in 1886, drew a pencil line 
across the word “God,” and refused to pronounce it when they 
came to it in their reading. It is a most remarkable fact that 
after twenty-two years this country of Korea is God’s greatest 
missionary field, with greatest promise—and Seoul itself is 
flinging away its fetishes, while hundreds gather to the prayer 
services in a single church, and the “high class” people of twenty 
years ago are found in large proportion seated in the church 
service and prayer service beside the lowest in social rank. 
CASTE is becoming a thing of the past, and the spirit of Jesus, 
with His ideal of brotherhood, is possessing the land. 

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The Rev. Dr. Barry tells about an incident that illustrates the 
meager measures of FAITH and suggests why, when we come to 
God, we so often go away not SATISFIED. He says, “We were 
giving away soup on one occasion to the poor people, and had 
Issued INSTRUCTIONS that the lads who came to fetch the soup 
should bring a vessel containing about two quarts. 

“I was at the soup kitchen and saw a boy about eleven years 
of age, ragged and dirty, but with eyes that flashed fire, lugging 
a vessel that would hold at least three gallons. 

“We could not, for shame, put two quarts into that. We were 
simply bound to empty out a gallon into it, at least, and we did.” 

God is saying: “Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it, and 
bring vessels not a few.” We need to follow the EXAMPLE of 
this boy who carried away twice as much as the others could 
possibly get, because of a larger ASKING. 

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The China aster has a LITTLE FOE. The worm is lost among 
the roots and only a practiced eye, ASSISTED by a lens, can 
detect its presence. It weighs not a thousandth part of a piece 
of aster root of its size, and yet one worm, microscopic in 
dimension, will DESTROY a whole plant. The worm literally 
goes to the root of the matter—if it attack a blossom the plant 
would not be so ENDANGERED. Other blooms would flourish 
and the foliage remain, but when the root is attacked, there is 
this greater danger. If the mischief be detected, the plant ex¬ 
amined, the worm discovered and killed and the plant be reset, 
there is the possibility of growth and beauty, but even then there 
may have been a deposit of invisible eggs that will grow later. 

One sin may blight a life. It may be microscopic, like the 
“aster foe,” and proportioned to the life may be but a thousandth 
part, but the germs of evil are subtle and work great havoc in 
lives that otherwise would be beautiful and useful. Only by a 
discovery of this foe and its removal can the life survive. 


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2 Kings 6. 6.—The iron did swim. 

Isa. 27. 6.—Fill the face of the world with fruit. 

Ezek. 37. 3.—Can these bones live? 

Mark 7. 24.—He could not be hid. 

Acts 19. 19.—Brought their books and burned them. 

Acts 28. 6.—After they looked they changed their minds. 


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1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou an ensample in faith. 
Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is faith (life-resource). 
Psa. 121. 1.—I will lift up mine eyes. 

Psa. 81. 10.—Open thy mouth wide. I will fill. 


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Gal. 5. 9.—A little leaven leaventh the whole lump. 
Judg. 16. 21.—He did grind in the prison-house. 

1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou (as) an engraver. 


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At “Promontory Point,” Utah, 1,100 miles west of the Missouri 
River, and 800 miles east from the Pacific coast, the last rail was 
laid uniting the eastern and western divisions of the first great 
transcontinental railway. 

Arrangements had been made in the chief cities of the Nation 
by which the completion of this vast undertaking should be 
announced by telegraph. 

At the National capital a bell was suspended on which a 
magnetic hammer should record the strokes of the sledge as the 
last spike should be driven. When all was in readiness the 
signal was given—the sledge of the workman fell and the 
lightning flashed over the mountain and plain until the strokes 
were delivered almost instantly on the bell in Washington, 2,400 
miles away. By this token those who heard them knew that the 
work was complete and the continent spanned with iron. 

But how small is the greatest work of man as compared with 
the work of God. When Christ on Calvary said: “It is 
FINISHED,” there was a great earthquake and the sun was 
darkened: and when at the last the Lord shall come to possess 
his completed work, it shall be with power and with great glory, 
so much greater is the work of God and the great epochs of his 
plan than the work of man. ■ 

Pottle 268 

The late Bishop Thomson, in his Moral and Religious Essays, 
gives an account of an influential, intelligent, strong-minded 
INFIDEL, in Ohio, who gathered about him a community of 
unbelievers, whose religious views corresponded with and were 
largely molded by his own. He took PRIDE in his BENEVO¬ 
LENCE and kindness to the POOR. Soon the drafts on his liber¬ 
ality became so numerous as to startle him. 

He said to himself: “How does it happen that this community 
is becoming more THRIFTLESS, while PROSPERITY abounds 
among people who live near?” Investigating thoroughly he dis¬ 
covered that in homes where the Bible was and used there was 
no WANT, but where the Bible was ABSENT was present or 
approaching poverty. 

Soon after an itinerant preacher came to hold services in the 
school house, and when the lewder, baser sort sought to break 
up the meeting and drive away the MINISTER, this champion of 
infidelity defended him, and said to his infidel neighbors: 

“I have been abroad among you and find that you who 
REVERE the Bible live in prosperity; you who despise it are 
approaching PAUPERISM, if not actually in distress. I am 
ALARMED at what I have done; I have made you infidels, but 
in doing so have I not RUINED you? 

“Many of you are young, men of goods—I have a family of 
daughters, but I would rather follow them all to the grave than 
to see them united in MARRIAGE with you. 

“Henceforth I will be the FRIEND of the BIBLE. It is the 
instrument of GOOD.” 


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Tit. 2. 13.—Looking for the glorious appearance. 

Matt. 24. 14.—Then shall the end be. 

Luke 23. 44.—A darkness over all the earth. 

Isa. 34. 4.—The heavens shall be gathered as a scroll. 


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Acts 28. 6.—After they looked they changed. 

Matt. 7. 16.—Ye shall know them by their fruits. 

Psa. 119. 130.—The entrance of thy words giveth light. 

2 Cor. 6. 15.—What part, with an infidel? 

1 Chron. 13. 3.—We enquired not, in the days of Saul. 

Eccl. 9. 18.—One sinner destroyeth much good. 

2 Tim. 3. 13.—Evil men and seducers wax worse and worse. 


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Dr. Gordon used to tell of what he once saw in New England 
that presents the Lord’s idea of the true Christian life. 

Two little saplings grew side by side—through the action of 
the wind they crossed each other—by and by the bark of each 
became wounded and the sap began to MINGLE until in time 
they became UNITED to each other—the process went on until 
they were firmly compacted. Then the stronger began to AB¬ 
SORB the life of the weaker. The weaker growing weaker, until 
it finally dropped away—and now there are two trunks at the 
base of the tree and only ONE above the place of union—DEATH 
has taken the one away, the LIFE of the other has TRIUMPHED. 

The life of man and of the Christ may so come together as that 
they shall begin to knit and the old life of the one shall grow 
less and less, while the other inoreases unto the day of PER¬ 
FECT beauty and of perfect FRUITAGE. 

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There is at least one lighthouse in the world that is not placed 
on any mariner’s chart. It will be found out on the Arizona 
Desert, where is a WELL of fresh WATER—the only place 
where water may be had for forty-five miles to the Eastward and 
thirty miles in any other direction. A tall cottonwood pole 
stands by the well and to the top of this pole a LANTERN is 
hoisted every night. The light can be seen for miles across the 
plain, and lights many a thirsty TRAVELER to the well. This 
LIGHTHOUSE, not so prominent—not so expensive as some, yet 
performs its MISSION in its smaller but equally important way. 
So with our smaller and our mission churches—and so with what 
may be called from our view-point the smaller lives—if from each 
one there is hoisted a light that shines out over the desert to 
lighten the way of the thirsty, no light shall shine but lights 
some soul to Christ, the Fountain. 

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A gentleman was recently investigating farming methods in 
California and discovered a novel way of plowing—“One day,” so 
he says, “in the wine country I heard a tremendous bang, bang, 
banging, and started from my seat, thinking some dreadful ex¬ 
plosion had occurred—my host told me, with a laugh, that his 
men were merely PLOWING with dynamite, and explained that 
when it was desired to loosen up the soil at a depth of three feet 
or so, dynamite cartridges were set in the earth and fired off; 
these beautifully broke up the ground, and what was equally im¬ 
portant, destroyed the PHYLLOXERA, the bane of the vine grower 
—no such VINEYARD suffered from this PEST afterwards.” 

God often deals that way with human life, shaking it to pieces, 
as it were, by the dynamite of TROUBLE or trials, and though 
this process be GRIEVOUS at the time, it is a cause for praise, 
for so is the soul not only loosened and mellowed, but the 
PHYLLOXERA of sin are in measure destroyed. 


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Col. 3. 3.—Ye died and your life is hid. 

John 3. 30.—Ye must increase, but I decrease. 
Gal. 2. 20.—Christ liveth in me. 

Col. 1. 27.—Christ in you the hope of glory. 


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Psa. 119. 67.—Before I was afflicted I went astray. 

Heb. 12. 11.—Chastening—afterwards fruits of righteousness. 
Psa. 107. 6.—They cried unto the Lord in trouble. 

Jonah 2. 1.—Prayed out of the fish’s belly. 


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Matt. 5. 14.—Ye are the light of the world. 

Psa. 23. 5.—My cup runneth over. 

John 7. 37.—If any man thirst, let him come and drink, 
fsa. 55. 1.—Ho! everyone that thirsteth, come. 

Rev. 22. 17.—Let him that heareth say, “Come.” 


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In Wellesley College a special feature of the DAILY LIFE of the 
household is the “silent time” of the morning and the evening. 
Both at the opening and the closing of the day there is a brief 
period, marked by the stroke of a bell, in which all the house is 
QUIET—-every pupil is in her room—there is no conversation— 
no step is heard in the corridors and the whole great household, 
with its thronging LIFE, is as quiet as if all its hundreds of 
inmates were sleeping. 

There is no positively prescribed way of spending the SILENCE 
in the rooms, but it is understood that all whose hearts so incline 
them, shall give the time to devotional reading, MEDITATION, 
and prayer. 

At least, the design of establishing this period of quiet as a 
part of the daily life of the school is to give OPPORTUNITY for 
such devotional exercise, and by its solemn hush to suggest to 
all the fitness, the helpfulness and the NEED of such periods of 
COMMUNION with God. 

The bell that calls for silence at the same time calls to 
THOUGHT and prayer. 

In this rule of its daily life WELLESLEY College recognizes a 
sphere of life that is too thoughtlessly disregarded in this age of 
RUSH and lifts up an EXAMPLE to the whole educational world, 
for which she is to be greatly praised, and in which those who 
are wise, whether in College life or in HOME LIFE, will follow. 

Every Christian life that hopes to be CONSISTENT must have 
its DAILY “silent times.” 


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Henry van Dyke tells a beautifully suggestive story of the 
discovery of one of the most beautiful faces of Dante upon the 
walls of the Bargello, at Florence. 

For years the picture was supposed to have been destroyed— 
tradition told of its wonderful beauty, but no one could tell where 
it was. 

Some said it had been stolen; some said a vandal had de¬ 
stroyed it, but at last an Italian artist devoted himself to the 
TASK of finding it. 

He went to the palace where he believed it to be and made a 
thorough SEARCH—guided by his knowledge of such buildings, 
he concluded the picture was in a room then being used as a 
store room, so he had the heaps of rubbish removed from its 
floors, and then carefully examined the walls, and HIDDEN by 
the whitewash and accumulated filth of years, he found the 
picture. 

The work of the Italian artist is the work of the Christian of 
today in the debased wrecks of the haunts of vice and in the 
degraded of the slums the image of God is to be seen and un¬ 
covered and the sinful habit and filth of foul association are to 
be brought out of the life that the HIDDEN face may be seen and 
the chambers of the soul be as God meant they might. 


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Psa. 139. 17.—How precious are thy thoughts. 

Isa. 4G. 10.—Be still and know. 

Matt. 6. 6.—And when thou hast shut the door. 

1 Kings 7. 22.—Upon the top of the pillars, lily-work. 
Mark 6. 31.—Not leisure to eat. 


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Gen. 1. 27.—In the image created he him. 

Lev. 13. 45.—And he shall cry, “Unclean, unclean.” 
Psa. 8. 4.—What is man? 

Mark 7. 24.—He could not he hid. 

2 Cor. 3. 18.—Changed into the same image. 


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RUSKIN gives this WITNESS for the word of God as it was 
TAUGHT him in his CHILDHOOD by his MOTHER: “All that I 
have taught of art, everything that I have written, every GREAT¬ 
NESS that there has been in any thought of mine, whatever I 
have done in my life, has simply been due to the fact that when 
I was a child my mother DAILY read with me a part of the 
BIBLE and daily made me LEARN a part of it by heart.” 

Pottle 275 

There is a mystery in human hearts; — 

And though we were encircled by a host 
Of those who love us well, and are beloved, 

To every one of us from time to time, 

There comes a sense of utter LONELINESS: 

Our dearest friend a STRANGER to our joy 
And cannot realize our BITTERNESS. 

“There is no one who really understands— 

Not one to enter into all I feel.” 

Such is the cry of each of us in turn, 

We wander in “a solitary way.” 

No matter what or where our lot may be, 

Each heart, MYSTERIOUS even to itself, 

Must live its INNER life in solitude. 

And would you know the reason why this is? 

It is because the Lord desires our love: 

In every heart he wishes to be FIRST, 

He therefore keeps the secret key himself 
To open all its chambers and to bless 
With perfect SYMPATHY and holy PEACE, 

Each solitary soul which comes to him. 

So when we feel this loneliness, it is 
The voice of Jesus saying, “Come to me”; 

And every time we are not understood 
It is a call to us to come again; 

For Christ alone can SATISFY the soul, 

And those who walk with him from day to day 
Can never have “a solitary way.” 

And when beneath some heavy CROSS you faint 
And say, “I cannot bear the cross alone,” 

You say the truth. Christ made it purposely 
So heavy that you must return to Him. 

The bitter grief which no one understands 
Conveys a SECRET MESSAGE from the King, 
Entreating you to come to him again. 

The “Man of Sorrows” understood it well: 

In all points TEMPTED, he can feel with you; 

You cannot come too often or too near. 

The Son of God is infinite in grace, 

His presence SATISFIES the longing soul, 

And those who walk with him from day to day 
Can never have “a solitary way.” 


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Psa. 119. 130.—The entrance of thy word giveth light. 
Prov. 22. 6.—Train up a child, he will not depart. 
Prov. 31. 28.—Her children call her blessed. 

Ezek. 18. 2.—The children’s teeth are set on edge. 
Acts 2. 39.—Unto you and your children. 

2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy grandmother, thy mother, and thee. 
Joel 1. 3,—Tell ye your children of it. 


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Prov. 14. 10.—The heart knoweth its own bitterness. 

Psa. 17. 15.—I shall be satisfied. 

Psa. 42. 1.—As the hart pantetb after the water brooks. 
Luke 24. 15.—Jesus himself drew near and went with them. 


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No one would wish to detract from the glory of Admiral Dewey 
in annihilating the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Manila, or from 
the wreath that belongs to Lieutenant Hobson for his brilliant 
work with the MERRIMAC, but there are QUIET HEROES whose 
heroism is no less true about whom very little is said. 

Lieutenant Victor Blue is of this type. Sent into the hills back 
of Santiago to SPY out the land—he saw the Spanish fleet and 
ascertained that all of Admiral Cervera’s ships except the Terror 
were in Commodore Schley’s TRAP. It was not a very dramatic 
performance, but he risked his life at every step, and if captured 
would not have been treated like an honorable PRISONER, as 
Hobson, but would be HANGED as a spy, but he, like the heroes 
in the common walks of life, is little APPLAUDED. 

These patiently climb the hills of life and go on doing their 
DUTY and only God knows the HEROIC quality of their work, 
but God does know, he keeps a “book of remembrance,” and some 
day it will be opened and every hero shall have his CROWN. 

Pottle 277 

In the company of the French literati there is no name more 
BRILLIANT than Guy de Maupassant, prematurely dead. 

Owing to the disreputable character of his productions the 
French Academy had refused to affix its imprimatur to his work. 
He said: “The Academy would condemn me to VIRTUE, but 
there is plenty of time for VIRTUE.” 

The words had scarcely passed from his lips before he was 
seized with a melancholy madness which ended his life. 

Let no man tempt God to pass immediate JUDGMENT— 
VIRTUE may soon be our greatest NEED. 

Pottle 278 

Theodore Roosevelt, shortly after his appointment as Assistant 
Secretary of the Navy, asked for an appropriation of $800,000 for 
ammunition for the navy. The appropriation was made and a 
few months later the Assistant Secretary of the Navy requested 
$500,000 more. In connection with the application he was asked 
what he had done with the first $800,000 worth. 

Roosevelt replied: “Every bit of it has been used for practice.” 
He was then asked what he was going to do with the $500,000 
he was asking for. His answer was: “Going to use every ounce 
of that, too, within the next thirty days PRACTICE shooting.” 

When one remembers the United States Gunnery in the Two 
great Naval Battles of the Spanish War, he has no doubt that 
they are accounted for in large degree by this PREPARATION. 

Men are FITTING themselves for careers of great intellectual 
and moral force as they prepare. It always pays to get READY. 

There is as much unwisdom in attempting a work in the realm 
of the spiritual without proper preparation of head and heart as 
there is in attempting it in the realm of the temporal. 

If David had been a poor hand with a SLING he never would 
have SAVED his people from GOLIATH and the Philistine hosts. 


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2 Tim. 2. 3.—Endure hardness as a good soldier. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 

Eccl. 3. 7.—A time to keep silence. 

Luke 21. 3.—She of her penury cast in. 

1 Thes. 4. 11.—Study to be quiet. 

2 Tim. 2. 15.—A workman that needeth not to be ashamed. 


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Hos. 4. 17.—Joined to idols, let him alone. 

Amos 4. 12.—Prepare to meet thy God. 

Heb. 11. 25.—Pleasures of sin for a season. 

Heb. 2. 1.—Lest we drift by them. 

2 Cor. 6. 2.—Today is the day of salvation. 

Num. 14. 25.—Tomorrow get you into the wilderness. 
Acts 24. 25.—Felix trembled and said, “Go thy way.” 


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Eph. 5. 15.—See that ye walk to a point. 

1 Cor. 11. 28.—Let a man examine himself. 

Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience. 

John 7. 17.—If any will do, he shall know. 

Luke 4. 16.—As his custom was. 

2 Tim. 2. 15.—A workman that needeth not to be ashamed. 


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The Rev. Huston W. Lowry related a remarkable instance of 
ANSWERED PRAYER that came in his work at Wellsville, Ohio. 

Special services were being held; the wife of an INFIDEL 
came to the meetings and was brought under CONVICTION, but 
was AFRAID to make CONFESSION or come to the Lord’s table, 
lest her husband, on hearing it, might, in his HATRED and rage 
take her life or do some great harm. 

She consulted the minister and Rev. Lowry told her to pray 
about it and FOLLOW what God should persuade her was right. 
This she did and determined to OBEY and “do this” as the word 
recommended. 

The SACRAMENTAL service came and the pastor was led to 
suggest that this special season was the time when God might 
be expected to especially grant the desires of his children. 

The wife of the infidel lifted her heart to God and asked, if 
possible, that her husband might be saved. After the services 
she went home, scarce knowing what might be expected. 

They were seated at the table, when the husband put his face 
in his hands and sobbed like a child—she asked what was wrong, 
and he answered that not long before he was sitting thoughtlessly 
and aimlessly in his chair, there was thrust in his mind a 
THOUGHT of God. He sought to drive it from him, affirming 
repeatedly his infidelity, but he could not rid himself of the 
thought. That night the infidel went with his wife to the service 
and was soon after CONVERTED and made a public profession of 
Christ, and several years afterwards was still living a HAPPY 
Christian life, one of the most influential laborers in the Lord’s 
vineyard. 

The importance of prayer is often urged and its necessity 
emphasized from the pulpits of our churches and in their prayer 
services, but not oftener nor yet more emphasized relatively than 
it is emphasized in the word of God. 

Pottle 280 

While walking down the street one day a minister passed a 
store when the proprietor was washing a large plate-glass win¬ 
dow. There was one soiled spot which defied all effort to 
remove it. 

After rubbing hard at it, using much soap and water, and 
failing to remove it, he found what the trouble was and called 
in to some one in the store, “It’s on the inside.” 

Many a striving to CLEANSE the soul from its STAINS and 
wash it with tears of sorrow and scrub It with the soap of 
good RESOLVES, they rub it with chamois of morality, but still 
there is a consciousness of its presence and a demonstration of 
its power. The trouble is, “It’s on the inside.” 

It is the heart which is bad. If the fountain is BITTER the 
stream will not be sweet. 

Any man may spend a lifetime with his life and to no great 
extent better it only as he cleans by the HELP of God from the 
inside. 


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Isa. 28. 20.—The bed is shorter—the covering narrower. 
James 5. 16.—The supplication availeth much. 

John 20. 26.—The doors being shut. 

Eph. 3. 20.—Exceeding abundantly above that we ask. 


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John 3. 7.—Ye must be born again. 

1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart (ornaments). 
Matt. 15. 19.—For out of the heart come forth. 

Prov. 4. 23.—Keep thy heart with all diligence. 


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There was in a jail in Elizabeth, New Jersey, a woman who 
was arrested while participating in wild DRUNKEN orgies with 
a gang of tramps in the woods near the town. 

She had at that time all the appearance of a besotted hag, 
though she was only a short time before a helpful wife of a 
respectable man and the MOTHER of three beautiful CHILDREN. 

Her father, who is said to be living in a village in New York 
state, is a highly respected minister of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Her children in a children’s asylum and her husband a 
wanderer in the West, completes the story, except its CAUSE. 

The cause of her RUIN and the ruin of her HOME was BEER, 
prescribed for her by the family physician as a TONIC. 

At first she refused to take it, having always been a teetotaler, 
but she was persuaded to follow the directions of the physician, 
and soon acquired a taste for DRINK, which speedily developed 
an APPETITE which wrought this inexpressibly sad condition. 

Pottle 282 

There is a peculiar kind of club-moss, the “Selaginella con- 
voluta.” It grows in the sandy places of South America and in 
some of the tropical sandy places in North America also. 

When the sun has drunk away every particle of moisture from 
the surface of the sand, this club-moss does not send its roots 
deeper—it simply rolls itself up into a ball and waits for the 
winds, which are sure to blow across the places of its growing. 

The winds dash it along, often for great distances, thus it may 
be blown into some damp place, or to some marsh. 

There the moss unrolls and strikes out its roots upon the sur¬ 
face to carry on its FRUITING. And when the sun dries up this 
spot, the moss rolls up again and waits for a wind. 

As one would guess, although it is a plant of a low order and 
in the vegetable kingdom, it is the symbol of purposelessness. 

More to be censured is the PURPOSELESS life that differs 
from this moss in that it is of God’s HIGHEST order and there¬ 
fore the more DEFEATS the purpose of its creation. 

“Club-moss” is truly worthless, but a “club” life is inexcusable, 
as sin against itself, against humanity, against its God. 

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“Do you think it would be wrong for me to learn the NOBLE 
ART of SELF DEFENSE?” a religiously inclined young man 
inquired of his pastor. “Certainly not,” answered the minister. 
“I learned it in YOUTH myself, and I have found it of great 
value during my life.” “Indeed, sir! Did you learn the old 
English system or the Sullivan system?” “I learned neither,” 
said the minister. “I learned the Solomon system.” “The 
Solomon system?” answered the young man. 

“Yes; you will find it in the first verse of the. fifteenth chapter 
of Proverbs. ‘A SOFT ANSWER turneth away WRATH.’ It is 
the best system of self defense of which I know.” 


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Gal. 5. 23.—The fruit is temperance (life-control). 

1 Cor. 8. 13.—If eating meat make my brother offend. 
Prov. 23. 34.—Upon the top of the mast. 


pottle 282 

Gen. 49. 4.—Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. 

Lev. 6. 13.—Fire shall be kept burning continually upon the 
altar. 

1 Kings 20. 40.—Busy here and there, he was gone. 

2 Kings 13. 19.—Thou shouldst have smitten five or six times. 
Job 2. 9.—Then said his wife, “Renounce God and die.” 

1 Cor. 15. 10.—I am what I am. 

Heb. 10. 36.—Ye have need of hold-on-to-it-iveness. 


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Prov. 15. 1.—A soft answer turneth away wrath. 

Rom. 12. 19.—Avenge not yourselves. 

Judg. 5. 20.—The stars fighteth against Sisera. 

1 Thes. 4. 11.—Study to be quiet. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is, long-suffering (life-reprieve). 


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It is told that when Ole Bull and John Ericsson met for the 
first time in the city of New York that the great musician said 
to his new-found friend, “Come around and hear me play tonight.” 

The invitation was not accepted. It was given a second time, 
and again it was not accepted. 

The third time Ole Bull said: “If you do not come and hear me 
play I will come and play for you in the shops,” and John 
Ericsson said: “Don’t bring your violin into my shop, for I 
don’t care for MUSIC.” But the next day Ole Bull was in the 
shop, and he said: “There is something the matter with my 
VIOLIN” 

They talked about “tones” and “semi-tones” and fibers of wood, 
and then he said: “I will show you how it is.” He strung up the 
instrument, drew the bow across the strings and began to play. 
In a little while the building was filled with waves of harmony— 
the men left their work and gathered about the great musician. 

John Ericsson rose from his desk, stood for a moment in the 
outer circle, and then came close to Ole Bull, and listened to every 
note that came from the violin. 

At last the player drew his bow across the strings and stopped. 
The men were turning back to work, but John Ericsson, with the 
tears streaming down his cheeks, said: “Play on! Play on! I 
never KNEW what was LACKING in my life before.” 

The Lord Christ is seeking 'all men, to bring into their lives 
what is found WANTING there, but like John Ericsson, they 
refuse to have brought into life that only which will SATISFY, 
the only harmony. 

Pottle 285 

A young lady who at one time was an active Christian drifted 
away from her former life and gave herself up to pleasure, 
dress, and society. 

One day as she was returning from California an accident oc¬ 
curred on the train and she was fatally injured. 

They carried her into a little, dingy station, and there the 
physician told her she must, in a short time, DIE. 

She looked about, and then turning to the physician, said: “I 
have but an hour, you tell me.” “No more,” he said. “And this is 
all that is left me of the WORLD. It is not much, doctor.” 

The men left the room while the doctor watched by her side. 

She put her arms over her face and lay for a little time, then 
turned on him in a frenzy, quoted: “To think of all that I might 
have done with my MONEY and my TIME. God wanted me to 
HELP the poor and the sick. It’s too late; it’s too LATE now. 
I’ve only an hour.” She struggled up wildly. “Why, doctor, I 
did nothing—nothing but lead the FASHION! Now I’ve only an 
hour! It’s too late,” and in a little while she lay dead—life a 
pitiable failure, as every life of fashion really is. 

Certain it is that those who just throw life away, whether they 
come to the last in the wreck of a train or in old age, the SIN 
and the SHAME of it is not less and the SORROW is like to be 
the “endless grief.” 


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Jer. 31. 14.—My people shall be satisfied. 

John 5. 40.—Ye will not come unto me. 

John 4. 10.—If thou knewest. 

Psa. 42. 1.—As the hart panteth after the water brooks. 
2 Cor. 12. 14.—The third time I am ready to come. 

Mark 10. 21.—One thing thou lackest. 


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Gen. 3. 6.—She took of the fruit. 

Josh. 2. 19.—Whosoever shall go out of the door. 
Isa. 21. 12.—And also the night. 

Jer. 8. 20.—The harvest is past, the summer ended. 
Heb. 11. 25.—Pleasures of sin of a season. 

Heb. 10. 39.—Who draw back unto perdition. 


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At a meeting held in Sing Sing state prison by Maude Balling- 
ton Booth one of the talks was made by Mrs. McAlpin, in which 
she said that she remembered distinctly when the “Little Mother” 
(Mrs. Booth) held her first meeting in the prison eight years 
before. In that meeting she called on all who would accept the 
motto and purposes of the society to stand up—about a hundred 
of the boys arose—the toughest and hardest, said Mrs. McAlpin. 

A wave of gruff laughter swept through the room as they stood 
up, but, continued Mrs. McAlpin, one year later, when the same 
men stood up, not a black mark had been chalked against one of 
them in their prison records. Then the men applauded, with just 
as much spirit as they had laughed the year before. 

It is not for the one who first makes CONFESSION to expect 
the applause of those who have heretofore looked upon a life* 
that has been unchristian or DEBAUCHED, but let such an one 
stand in God, and after even a community of CRIMINALS have 
looked upon a sturdy STRUGGLE with sin and seen the record 
clear, where first was derisive laughter or a questioning silence, 
even from the same will come the deserved APPLAUSE. 

Pottle 287 

In the ancient Cathedral of Genoa a vase of immense VALUE 
has been preserved for six hundred years. 

It is cut from a single EMERALD—its principal diameter is 
twelve and one half inches and its height five and three quarter 
inches. It is KEPT under several locks, the keys of which are in 
different hands, and it is rarely exhibited in public, and then 
only by an order of the senate. 

When exhibited it is suspended round the neck of a priest. No 
one is allowed to touch it but him. It is claimed that the vase 
was one of the gifts of the Queen of Sheba made to Solomon. 

So do men GUARD that which is of transient value, while 
they permit the infinite value to slip from their fingers often¬ 
times, never to be regained. 

Pottle 288 

In Windsor Castle there is a suite of rooms for the CHAPLAIN. 

During the years of the reign of Queen Victoria there was a 
special passageway connecting the chaplain’s study with the 
Queen’s apartment and she frequently repaired to the study to 
CONSULT him on the IMPORTANT matters of her kingdom. 

It would be doubtless safe for PARISHIONERS to be in very 
much closer touch with their pastors in all that goes to make 
up life, not only spiritual, but temporal and financial. 

The author recalls the experience of several members of one 
of his congregations who, together in the aggregate, LOST at least 
$15,000, when, if he had been consulted, they ^ould have been 
FOREWARNED, and so forearmed, and the “Story-Cotton” 
gamble have sooner failed. 

And without doubt there are many other pastors and many 
other congregations that have made HISTORY of the same sort. 


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Rom. 13. 7.—Honor to whom honor. 

2 Cor. 9. 15.—His unspeakable gift. 

1 Cor. 1. 27.—God hath chosen the weak things. 

Acts 28. 6.—After they looked, they changed their minds. 
Matt. 7. 16.—Ye shall know them by their fruits. 

Rom. 1. 16.—The power of God unto soundness. 


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Prov. 4. 23.—Keep thy heart with all diligence. 


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Josh. 9. 14.—They asked not counsel of the Lord. 

Neh. 8. 1.—All the people as one man (the Book). 

1 Sam. 9. 6.—A man of God, peradventure he can show us. 
1 Chron. 13. 3.—They inquired not in the days of Saul. 


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Side by side in the year 1907, in the Jewish Hospital, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., lay a MOTHER and her six-year-old son, the 
former a voluntary SUFFERER for the benefit of the latter. 

Above five months before the child was severely scalded. His 
wounds healed, but it was noticed that there was a deformity of 
his neck, which caused him to hold his head to one side. On 
consulting a doctor she learned that the deformity would become 
worse rather than better. “Could nothing be done for the boy?” 
the mother inquired, anxiously. 

The surgeon told her that the only REMEDY was to cut away 
the skin that had been contracted by the scalds and replace it 
with new skin that must be obtained from a living person. The 
mother promptly offered herself for the purpose. 

Sufficient skin was taken from her body to graft the new 
growth on the boy’s neck, and she and the child slowly recovered 
from the painful operation. 

“Ah,” you say, “that is a MOTHER’S LOVE, to be willing to 
ENDURE such excruciating PAIN that the son might be SAVED 
from deformity.” 

Such instances as these give us faint glimpses of the love of 
God for us rebellious children, whose spiritual DEFORMITY 
could only be taken away by the suffering of the CROSS. 

Pottle 290 

Some twenty years ago a woman was coming out of a public 
building when the heavy door swung back and made egress some¬ 
what difficult. A little urchin sprang to the rescue, and as he held 
open the door she said, “Thank you,” and was passing on. 

“Cracky, d’ye hear that?” said the boy to a companion standing 
near him. “No; what?” 

“W’y, that lady said, ‘Thank you,’ to the likes of me.” 

Amused at the conversation, which she overheard, she turned 
around and said to the boy; “It always pays to be POLITE, my 
boy. Remember that.” The years passed and last December 
when doing her Christmas shopping the same lady received 
exceptionally courteous treatment from a clerk in Boston, which 
caused her to remark to the friend who was with her: 

“What a great comfort to be civilly treated once in a while— 
though I don’t know that I blame the store clerks very much for 
being RUDE during the holiday trade.” 

The young man’s ear caught the words, and he answered: 
“Pardon me, madam, but you gave me my first LESSON in 
politeness a few years ago.” 

The lady looked at him in amazement while he related the 
LITTLE forgotten incident, and told her that that simple “Thank 
you” awakened his first AMBITION to be something. 

He went the next morning and applied for a situation as office 
boy in the same establishment in which now he was an honored 
and trusted clerk. 

Only two WORDS dropped into the treasury of a street CON¬ 
VERSATION, but they YIELDED a hundredfold. 


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Exod. 20. 12.—Honor thy father and mother. 

2 Sam. 1. 26.—Thy love to me was wonderful. 

Prov. 31. 28.—Her children call her blessed. 

Isa. 66. 13.—As one whom his mother comforteth. 

2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy grandmother, thy mother, and thee. 
Rom. 5. 8.—God commendeth his love. 


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Prov. 11. 1.—Cast thy bread upon the waters. 

1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou (as) an engraver in wood. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—We are ambitious. 

Rom. 14. 7.—None of us liveth to himself. 

1 Kings 7. 22.—Upon the top of the pillars, lily-work. 


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The finest—most perfect—most LUSCIOUS FRUIT is found in 
the CENTER of the tree and on the topmost bough. 

So he who would get the BEST must get it from INSIDE the 
ORCHARD, he must pass within the orchard fence or WALL. 

No less a truth is taught us in the word of God as to a Christian 
LIFE; by the goodness of God the man outside the COVENANT 
gets much, and by this God would ENTICE him within the wall 
that he might ENJOY the most luscious fruit and the best 
FRUITAGE which is only found inside the wall. 


Pottle 292 

Jeremy Taylor once said in a comic but factic way, “You cannot 
cure the COLIC by brushing a man’s clothes.” 

If we are to bless men actually and effectually we must get to 
the fountain-head of their sorrows, the THOUGHT and IMAGINA¬ 
TION of their heart—there is no bettering of the life of the 
individual except as the spirit is touched and made sweet, con¬ 
tented and pure. 

ENVIRONMENT may not make the virtuous and happy com¬ 
munity as is proven in the ancient world, when we look into 
Eden, into Sodom, and into Canaan, with additional evidence in 
the modern world all about us. 

Moralizing about moralities and reformations may sound well, 
but they never can work well—regeneration is the only fact. 

Pottle 293 

What would any city or town or country be if you did not 
hinder the BRANCHES running over the wall and dropping part 
of the FRUITAGE upon the UNGODLY and undeserved? 

F. B. Meyer tells us of some INFIDELS who, many years ago, 
founded a town in Minnesota, in order to have a town in which 
the name of God or Christ should never be mentioned except in 
terms of PROFANITY and vulgarity. 

They hanged Jesus Christ in the street in EFFIGY and the 
place was full of BLASPHEMY. 

He says: “I had to stay there all night some years ago in 
passing through that region, and I trembled for my life, while I 
stayed in the best hotel in the place.” 

The town was destroyed by fire and they tried to build it 
again—it was again partially destroyed by fire, and at last, after 
there had been riot and bloodshed and anything but PURITY or 
PEACE for years, the citizens of the town sent to the American 
Home Missionary Society, and said: “Can you send us a MIN¬ 
ISTER of Jesus Christ?” 

And if you were to go there today you would scarcely know 
the community, with its CHURCH spires pointing heavenward 
and its CHILDREN in the Sunday schools, as orderly as most of 
the towns in the land, because of the INFLUENCE of the 
Church. 


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Gen. 49. 22.—His branches run over the wall. 

Rom. 2. 4.—The goodness of God, to a change of mind. 
Isa. 27. 6.—Fill the face of the world with fruit. 

Rom. 3. 1.—What advantage hath the Jew? 

2 Sam. 8. 1-14.—And after this David smote. 

Luke 18, 30.—Manifold more in this time and. 


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Lev. 13. 45.—And he shall cry, “Unclean, unclean.” 

Isa. 28. 20.—The bed is shorter, the covering narrower. 
Jer. 17. 9.—The heart is desperately sick. 

Eph. 6. 12.—We fight against principalities and powers. 
1 Pet. 5. 8.—Whom he may devour. 

John 3. 7.—Ye must be born again. 


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Gen. 49. 22.—His branches run over the wall. 

2 Tim. 3. 13.—Worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 
Psa. 119. 130.—The entrance of thy words bringeth light. 

Job 1. 9.—Doth Job fear God for naught? 

Psa. 127. 1.—Except Jehovah keep, the watchman waketh but 
in vain. 


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A street “fakir” who was selling cement near the steps of a 
courthouse stood behind a little table on which was displayed the 
sign: “A box of this cement given free to anybody who can 
break any of these apart.” There were spools, blocks of wood and 
other articles that had been cemented together. 

A swarthy little fellow, who had stopped in front of the fakir's 
stand, pointed to a round peg that appeared to have been dipped 
in the cement and driven into a small chunk of wood, and asked 
what the REWARD would be for pulling it out. “If you can pull 
that out,” said the fakir, “I’ll give you a crown.” 

The peg projected a little more than a quarter of an inch 
above the block. The little fellow placed his left hand on the 
block to hold it, took the peg between the thumb and forefinger of 
his right hand and pulled it out with apparent ease, a portion of 
the wood coming with it. 

“Bless me,” gasped the man behind the table, “what are you?” 

“Me Japanese dentist,” as he pocketed the silver and walked 
away. 

The London Telegraph that prints this incident affirms that 
Japanese dentists use their fingers for forceps, and a part of 
their training consists of exercises which develop an incredible 
amount of POWER in their hands. 

Whether in DENTISTRY in Japan or in the realm of morals 
and religion, it is the REPETITION of activities that wins out. 

Pottle 295 

The “Golden Rose” which the Pope presented in the spring of 
1907 to the new Queen of Spain is one of the most curious orders 
in existence. It is a mimic plant of pure gold, standing in a 
golden pot, on which are emblazoned the papal arms. 

The plant has leaves, buds, and flowers. 

In the central flower is a tiny receptacle in which is contained 
a small palm leaf BLESSED by the Pope—a ceremony usually 
performed on the fourth Sunday in Lent. 

The leaves of this golden plant are set with small jewels, in 
imitation of dew-drops, and are delicately worked in gold. 

The cost of the carving alone is about $350, and when the 
jewels are added from the collection of the Vatican, the plant has 
a full VALUE of at least $2,000. 

The presentation of the “Golden Rose” is the highest HONOR 
the Pope can confer upon a Catholic princess. At the present 
time it is the possession of the Queen-Regent of Spain, the ex- 
Empress Eugenie, and some few others. 

In the past it was presented to Empress Josephine, to Queen 
Isabella of Spain, to Queen Sophia of Naples and other famous 
women since the days of Johanna of Sicily, who was the first 
“Rose Queen,” in the time of Urban VI. 

The highest honor of the Vatican, with its “Golden Rose,” is 
less than the least HONOR of God, even though the Vatican 
assumes a directorship and DICTATORSHIP over the whole 
religious world. 


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Luke 4. 16.—As his custom was. 

Luke 11. 9.—Keep knocking, it shall be opened. 
Phil. 3. 13.—This one thing I do. 

2 Tim. 2. 15.—A workman not ashamed. 


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Heb. 11. 25.—The reproach of Christ greater riches. 
Luke 7. 32.—We have piped unto you. 

2 Cor. 9. 15.—Thanks for His unspeakable gift. 

Rev. 2. 10.—I will give a crown of life. 


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A member of a college class soon after graduation was ad¬ 
mitted to the practice of his profession as an attorney. 

Leaving the Court House he was met by a brilliant young man, 
who took him by the hand, saying: “Now you have been admitted 
to the bar. Let me give you a little ADVICE. Have your name 
taken from the CHURCH roll, burn your Bible, and you will 
make your mark.” It was a moment of TEMPTATION—turning 
from him the young attorney walked straight to a depository and 
invested almost his last half dollar in a pocket Bible. 

A quarter of a century passed and this lawyer met again the 
BRILLIANT young man, now a WRECK, with bloodshot eye and 
unkempt hair and beard—extending the same hand, he said: 
“Colonel, for God’s sake give me half a dollar and let me get out 
of town to get off this SPREE.” The attorney gave the asked-for 
coin and thought of his former half-dollar investment. 

pottle 297 

Professor James tells a touching little incident of a scene a 
few years ago in the Circassian Mountains during the war 
between Russia and some of the Circassian tribes: 

“The Circassian prophet chief, Sehmyl, had reason to believe 
that his plans were being divulged to the ENEMY by some of the 
circle that surrounded him, and he proclaimed to the whole tribe 
that any one found guilty of such traitorous act would receive a 
hundred STRIPES. It was the Chief’s own MOTHER! 

“For two days no one saw him—he was alone in PRAYER and 
fasting; then he came forth pale but calm. 

“ ‘Bring her forth and tie her up in the presence of all/ he 
said. She was tied and the knout fell, lacerating the flesh at 
each stroke. When five lashes had been given he cried, ‘Halt!’ 

“Then he bared his own back and was tied to the tree, com¬ 
manding that the ninety-five yet due should fall on him. 

“Turning to the one with the knout in his hand, he said: ‘Spare 
me not—treat me as if I were the real culprit, and before all the 
tribe.’ Stroke after stroke descended, until the ninety-five were 
counted, and he was carried into the tent, bruised and bleeding.” 

Pottle 298 

In Brooklyn, N. Y., lives a man who refuses to be a king, 
declaring that Redhook (a slum district) and the liquor business 
are good enough for him. 

The man is Lewis Napoleon Bonaparte Cociancich, who has 
undisputed claims to the THRONE of Servia. 

The Mail and Express (New York) publishes this brief inter¬ 
view, in which he says: “Yes, it is true I have been approached 
by Servians opposed to King Peter. I have sent word that I 
prefer to remain a free American citizen. I told them that here 
I could go to Coney Island, go swimming when I wanted to and 
have all the fishing I wanted, and as King of Servia I would have 
none of these PLEASURES.” 


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Col. 3. 2.—Set your mind on the things above. 
Gal. 6. 7.—Whatsoever a man soweth. 

John 17. 17.—Thy word is truth. 

Lam. 3. 27.—Good to bear the yoke in grief. 
Psa. 1. 1.—Not in the counsel of the wicked. 


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Isa. 53. 5.—And with his stripes we are healed. 

Horn. 2. 4.—Goodness of God to a change of mind. 
Mark 15. 25.—And they crucified him. 

Rom. 6. 23.—The wages is death, the gift is life. 

Matt. 18. 32.—I forgave thee all that debt. 

Eccl. 12. 14.—Every work into judgment, every secret. 


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2 Kings 2. 10.—Determine to (time of) asking. 

Hos. 4. 17.—Joined to idols, let him alone. 

John 3. 7.—He must be born again. 

John 5. 40.—Ye will not come unto me. 

Rom. 8. 17.-—Heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. 
Heb. 11. 25.—The pleasures of sin for a season. 


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On a marble slab that marks the burial place of a number of 
Iroquois Indians, in Cooperstown, N. Y., is the following in¬ 
scription: 

“White men, greeting! We, near whose bones you stand, were 
Iroquois. 

“The wide land which now is yours, was ours. 

“Friendly hands have given back to us enough for a tomb.” 

“Enough for a tomb”—that tells the whole story of the whole 
HUMAN race, white, black, yellow, brown, and red—“enough for 
a tomb” is all that any man may lay claim to and therefore the 
STRIFE after wealth for its own sake is greatest FOLLY. 


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When I shall wake on that fair morn of morns, 

After whose dawning never NIGHT returns. 

And with whose glory day eternal burns, 

I shall be SATISFIED. 

When I shall see thy glory face to face. 

When in Thine arms Thou wilt Thy child embrace, 
When Thou shalt open all Thy stores of grace, 

I shall be SATISFIED. 

When I shall meet with those whom I have loved, 
Clasp in my eager arms the long removed, 

And find how faithful Thou hast proved, 

I shall be SATISFIED. 

When this vile body shall arise again, 

Purged by Thy power from every taint and STAIN, 
Delivered from all weakness and all PAIN, 

I shall be SATISFIED. 

When I shall gaze upon the face of Him 
Who for me died, with eye no longer dim, 

And praise Him in the everlasting hymn, 

I shall be SATISFIED. 

When I shall call to mind the long, long past, 

With CLOUDS and storms and shadows overcast, 

And know that I am SAVED and blessed at last, 

I shall be SATISFIED. 

When every enemy shall disappear, 

The unbelief, the darkness, and the FEAR 
When Thou shalt smooth the brow and wipe the tear, 

I shall be SATISFIED. 

When every emptiness shall pass away, 

And all the real, all without DECAY, 

In that SWEET DAWNING of the CLOUDLESS DAY, 
I shall be SATISFIED. 


■Horatius Bonar. 


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Eccl. 5. 15.—Naked shall he go again as he came. 

1 John 2. 17.—The world passeth away. 

Heb. 13. 14.—Here have we no continuing city. 

2 Cor. 4. 18.—The things seen are temporal. 

Luke 12. 20.—Whose shall these things be? 


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Phil. 3. 20.—Our citizenship is in heaven. 

Psa. 17. 15.—I shall be satisfied when I awake. 
Heb. 13. 14.—Here have we no continuing city. 
Rev. 22. 4.—They shall see his face. 


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An article entitled “The Romance of Deep-Sea Diving” con¬ 
tains many descriptions of adventurous treasure-hunts. 

Particularly interesting is the account of the salvage of GOLD 
from the Spanish steamer ALPHONSO XII, which sunk off Port 
Gando, in the Island of Grand Canary, with nearly half a million 
in her TREASURE-CHESTS. The writer says: 

“For many months adventurers disappeared into the sea here, 
only to send up fevered messages into their life-line; hauled up 
the unhappy men were found semi-conscious, bleeding from ears, 
nose, and mouth. The awful water-pressure of tens of thousands 
of pounds had all but crushed the life out of them—often with 
the TEMPTING little chests of GOLD under their very legs. 

“Then Lambert came upon the scene, a rugged and bearded 
giant, and a daring heart. He came with special pumps and steel- 
stayed dress, and with a weird crinoline of steel hoops to relieve 
the awful pressure on his lungs and stomach. 

“He was dressed in a boat in the open sea and disappeared 
with a battery of pneumatic augers, hammers, and rock-drills, a 
few sticks of dynamite, and all else that could be devised. He 
said he thought he would never reach the Alfonso, the depth 
was so great. He gasped with pressure as he passed down the 
perpendicular depths of the Alfonso, but threaded his way 
through the barnacle-incrusted iron and rotting timber, SEARCH¬ 
ING for the treasure-chamber. 

“He had been down twenty minutes when he felt all was over 
and signaled to be hauled up. He took a rest on the shore for 
some hours, and then tried again, but was beaten again. 

“Each visit lowered his vitality, but gave him more knowledge 
of the WRECK. 

“At the last he found a mysterious door and drove his crowbar 
through it, breaking it open, and finding there the chests of gold. 

“Many of them were worm eaten and burst open. He says: ‘I 
stooped and in triumphant DELIGHT ran my thick-gloved fist 
through piles of glittering coin. 

“T had barely strength left to fasten a rope around three of 
the boxes, each containing $50,000, and retrace my steps as 
speedily as possible. 

“ ‘it was then we sent the cipher cable home. I rested for a 
week, descended again to the treasure chamber and sent up more 
chests of gold, and my own share of the treasure amounted to 
$60,000.’ ” 

But how he did search and what inconveniences and danger 
he was willing to face that he might have what he calls the 
“triumphant delight,” and after the delight his SHARE. 

SEARCH is necessary and inconvenience if other TREASURE 
of an eternal sort is to be found, but let us not forget that there 
is the “triumphant delight” and the SHARE infinitely beyond 
the worth of sixty thousand in coin. 


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1 Pet. 2. 7.—Unto you he is precious. 

Heb. 11. 26.—The reproof of Christ, greater riches. 
Phil. 3. 7.—These I counted lost for Christ. 

John 6. 27.—Labor not for the meat that perisheth, 
Psa. 139. 17.—How precious thy thoughts. 

Josh. 2. 20.—But if thou utter this our business. 


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pottle 302 

Mr. Spurgeon tells of an EXPERIENCE he once had. 

When he returned, with others, on one occasion from Italy, the 
Mont Cenis tunnel was newly opened. It extends for six miles 
underground and they RECKONED on its being a dreary passage, 
and so provided themselves with a candle. 

So they speculated, but when they traveled through the won¬ 
derful passage the carriages were exceedingly well LIGHTED 
and much of the tunnel also, and they sat with open windows, 
finding it as easy to breathe as out on the side of the mountain. 

It was a JOY rather than a BURDEN, a PLEASURE rather 
than a PERIL. Their trouble was the trouble of a multitude, 
“crossing a bridge before you get to it.” 

pottle 303 

In writing of the funeral of Lord Shaftesbury from his home 
to Westminster Abbey there is this record: “Reaching Trafalgar 
Square forty thousand factory hands, seamstresses, flower-girls, 
and laborers from the east end were found there assembled; 
then came a mile through such crowds as London has scarcely 
even seen, and on either side of the street delegations from Sun¬ 
day schools, shelters, the homes and the training schools, sup¬ 
ported almost wholly by this most wonderful philanthropist that 
England and perhaps the world has ever seen. 

“When the hearse apprpached the costermongers, a leader lifted 
a banner with these words, T was a stranger, and ye took me in.’ 

“The boys from the ragged schools lifted this banner: *1 was 
sick, and ye visited me/ 

“Upon a silken flag the leader of the working girls had in¬ 
scribed the words: ‘Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of 
these, ye did it unto me/ ” 

Beyond expression is the beauty of such a life; beyond the 
power of words is the beauty of such GRATITUDE. 

Pottle 304 

Rev. Sam Jones used this peroration at the close of one of his 
lectures: 

“An angel was sent down from heaven one day to bring back 
the most BEAUTIFUL thing on earth. 

“He hunted long and carefully, saw a bed of fullblown 
American Beauty ROSES, lovely beyond compare, and he gathered 
an armful and started to return to his home above. 

“As he soared into the air he saw a BABY’S smile, and filled 
with rapturous admiration at the sight, returned to take it, too. 

“By its side he discovered a MOTHER’S love, and with all three 
in his arms mounted to the place beyond the sky. 

“Just outside the pearly gates the spirit paused a moment, and 
lo! the roses had withered and were dead, the baby’s smile had 
vanished, but strong as ever the mother’s LOVE remained; 
and he cast the others aside and took this and laid it at the 
Master’s feet as the most lovely and LASTING thing on earth.” 


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Pottle 302 

Ruth 1. 20.—Call me Mara. 

Gen. 42. 36.—All these things are against me. 
Rom. 8. 28.—All things work together for good. 
1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou an ensample in faith. 

1 Pet. 5. 7.—Casting all your anxiety on him. 


Pottle 303 

Exod. 2. 20.—And where is he? 

2 Sam. 1. 26.—Thy love to me was wonderful. 
Matt. 7. 16.—Ye shall know them. 

Matt. 25. 39.—Verily I say, “Ye did it unto me.” 
Matt. 23. 11.—He that is greatest, your servant. 
Rom. 13. 7.—Honor to whom honor. 


Pottle 304 

Isa. 66. 13.—As one whom his mother comforteth. 

2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice. 

1 John 4. 8.—God is love. 

2 Cor. 9. 15.—Thanks for his unspeakable gift. 

Prov. 31. 28.—Her children call her blessed. 


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pottle 305 

There is a machine in the Bank of England that in a very 
wonderful way WEIGHS and sifts the sovereigns; so wonderfully 
does it that it is hardly believable. 

There is a whole case of sovereigns there by the man who, like 
an ordinary miller at an ordinary mill, takes his scoop and 
shovels up these sovereigns, shoveling them into this machine. 
He feeds his mill as a thresher feeds his threshing machine, and 
it takes hold of the coins and tests each one of them. 

It weighs each one and throws the light ones to one side, 
allowing only those that are good and up to the weight mark to 
flow into a receptacle by themselves. 

It is a marvelous bit of human inventive genius, but its testing 
quality is nothing like the balances in which King Nebuchad¬ 
nezzar was weighed and found WANTING—the BALANCES 
which will be used to weigh and test each soul at the final assize, 
when the dead, the small with the great, stand before God. 

Pottle 306 

Lord Bolingbroke once asked Lady Hamilton how she recon¬ 
ciled PRAYER to God for particular blessings with absolute 
RESIGNATION to the Divine Will. “Very easily,” she promptly 
answered. “Just as if I were to offer a petition to a monarch of 
whose wisdom and kindness I had the highest opinion. 

“In such a case my language would be, ‘I wish you would 
bestow on me such and such a favor, but your Majesty knows 
better than I how far it would be agreeable to you or right in 
itself to grant my DESIRE. I therefore content myself with 
humbly presenting my petition and leave it entirely to you.’ ” 

The ideal prayer is a combination of child-life importunity and 
the resignation of sainted old age. 

Pottle 307 

Luther was sorely downhearted. The battle, as he thought, was 
going against him—the Goliaths by the hundred, clad in eccle¬ 
siastical robes and electors’ garments, were upon him and he had 
lost the joy of his heart. 

Next morning his WIFE appeared clad in deep MOURNING— 
he asked, “Wife, what is this? I have not heard of anybody 
being dead; why have you put on the crepe? Why are you in 
mourning?” 

She said: “Oh, I am mourning for God. You have looked so 
sad this week I thought God was dead.” 

And the lesson reached Luther’s heart, and he said: “Forgive 
me, God, forgive me, wife!” 

It was just after that that he gave forth in German that 
wonderful FAITH hymn, “A strong Rock is our God. 

There are Christians that walk their whole life through, not 
with the crepe on their backs, but with the crepe on their 
FACES, and when we look upon them we are like Luther’s wife, 
and wonder if God is dead. 


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Dan. 5. 27.—Weighed and found wanting. 
Mark 10. 22.—Went away grieved. 

Num. 32. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you. 
Gen. 3. 11.—Who told thee thou wast naked. 


pottle 306 

1 Chron. 4. 9.—Jabez more honorable than brothers. 

1 Chron. 13. 3.—We enquired not in the days of Saul. 
Psa. 107. 6.—They cried unto the Lord in trouble. 


pottle 307 

Gen. 42. 36.—All these things against me. 

Psa. 42. 11.—Hope thou in God, I shall yet praise. 
Psa. 47. 1.—Oh, clap your hands—shout. 

1 Cor. 15. 57.—Thanks be to God who giveth victory. 


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Dr. S. D. Gordon tells us of what he calls “The best picture I 
ever saw of God.” 

He says: “It was a man, a minister, who lived in a New Eng¬ 
land town, and who had a son about fourteen years of age, attend¬ 
ing school. One afternoon the boy’s teacher called at the home 
and asked for the FATHER, and said to him: ‘Is your boy sick?’ 

“No, why?”—“He was not at school today.”—“Is that so?” 

“Nor yesterday.”—“You don’t mean it!” “Nor the day before.” 

“Well!”—“And I supposed he was sick.”—“No, he is not sick.” 

“Well, I thought I should tell you,” and the father said: 
“Thank you,” and the teacher left. 

The father was sitting, THINKING, when by and by he heard 
a click at the gate, and he knew the boy was coming, so he went 
to open the door, and the boy knew as he looked up that his 
father knew about those three days. 

The father said: “Come into the library, here,” and Phil went 
in and the door was shut—the father said: “Phil, your teacher 
was here this afternoon. He tells me you were not at school 
today—nor yesterday—nor the day before, and we supposed you 
were. You let us think you were. You do not know how badly I 
feel. I have always trusted you. I have always said I can 
TRUST my boy here, and here you’ve been living a LIE for three 
whole days. I can’t tell you how badly I feel about it.” Phil 
felt badly, too. After a pause, the father said: “Phil, we’ll get 
down and pray,” the very thing Phil didn’t want to do. 

But they got down and the father poured out his heart in 
prayer. And Phil saw himself on his knees as he never had seen 
himself before; the mirror of knee-joints is a wonderful mirror. 

When they got up from their knees the father said: “My boy, 
there’s a LAW of LIFE that where there is SIN there is SUFFER¬ 
ING. You can’t detach those two things. 

“Now,” he went on, “you have done wrong, and I am in this 
HOME like God is in the world, so we will do this. You go up to 
the attic. I’ll make a pallet for you there. We’ll take your meals 
up to you at the regular times, and you stay up there as long as 
you have been a living lie, three days and three nights.” 

They went up stairs, the pallet was made, the father kissed his 
boy and left him alone. The evening supper time came, also 
they sat at the table; they did not eat. 

The customary hour of retiring came; the clock struck ten, 
eleven, and then twelve. At last they locked up the house and 
went to bed, but neither of them to sleep; the clock struck one, 
and then two, and then the father said: “Mother, I can’t stand 
this any longer. I am going up stairs with Phil.” He took his 
pillow and tip-toed across the attic floor, and there Phil lay wide 
awake. The father lay down and they put their arms around 
each other’s neck, and then they slept. The next night the father 
said: “Good night, mother. I am going up stairs with Phil,” and 
the third night he slept in the place of PUNISHMENT with 
his son. You are not surprised to know that today that boy, a 
man grown, is telling the story of Jesus, with tongue and life 
aflame, in the heart of China. 


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Gen. 3. 23.—Forth from the garden of Eden. 

Gen. 4. 16.—Cain dwelt in the land of wandering. 
Prov. 22. 6.—Train up a child—he will not depart. 
Psa. 103. 13.—Like as a father pitieth, so the Lord. 
Luke 1. 17.—The hearts of fathers to the children. 
Acts 2. 39.—Unto you and to your children. 


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Pottle 309 

George T. Angell, in “Our Dumb Animals,” gives a striking 
incident of the long enduring impressions of CHILDHOOD. 

“All our labors in Chicago to found there the society which has 
since saved millions of dumb creatures from suffering, would 
have probably proved a failure but for the assistance of one man, 
who, when a little boy, away up in the mountains of New 
Hampshire, was TAUGHT in the little country SCHOOL to be 
KIND to ANIMALS. 

“And when we called upon President Hayes, at Washington, to 
ask that he would kindly put into his message to Congress some¬ 
thing about the CRUELTY of animal tansportation, his reply 
was that when at school in Massachusetts he once heard a talk 
by Rev. Dr. Hendge about animals and he had never forgotten it, 
and that if we would’write what we wanted it should go into 
his MESSAGE to Congress, and it did. 

“Whether the teaching of childhood is about kindness to ani¬ 
mals or about Christ, it is the teaching that holds to the fabric 
of the mind and controls the energies of the soul.” 

Pottle 310 

Little sins and vices will, in time, destroy the most granitic 
characters. They are like the “termites,” or white ants of the 
East. Davies Moor, of Singapore, S. S., writes of microscopic 
study made by him of this LITTLE pest: 

“The termite is omnidestruetive—wood from which the ax flies 
off he pierces and makes in it a hundred parallel canals—he 
works his way through stone and copper, digesting all alike into 
that milky gluten said to be so nutritious to travelers in Africa. 

“A company of ‘termites’ went through our ayahs box and a 
little heap of dust was all they left, although in the box were 
some metal bracelets, those they digested with the rest. 

“I wondered how that might be possible, and upon further 
microscopic study found a squirt-like apparatus, like that reported 
from Germany, as possessed by a worm that eats the railroad 
steels. 

“I watched the ‘termites’ exude the white secretion by which 
their work of destruction and disintegration is accomplished. 

“It requires a microscope to investigate this DESTROYING pest, 
and so in life it requires a microscopic investigation of SIN to 
find out how much of danger and destruction lies in how little. 

“The MICROSCOPE of God’s Word alone furnishes us for such 
investigation.” 

Pottle 311 

The costliest MONUMENT erected to the dead in recent times 
will be placed above the grave of Mrs. Margarita Alvarado, the 
late wife of Pedro Alvarado, the Peon mining king of Mexico. 

The monument will be of Italian marble and solid silver, two 
tons of silver from Alvarado’s famous Plamilla mine is to be 
used, and a steel frame will be built around the GRAVE to 
guard against the THEFT of silver from the MONUMENT. 


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Prov. 22. G.—Train up a child, he will not depart. 

Joel 1. 3.—Tell ye your children of it. 

Luke 1. 17.—The hearts of fathers to the children. 

2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy grandmother, thy mother, and thee. 


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Gen. 19. 20.—Is it not a little one? 

Gal. 5. 9.—A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 
1 Pet. 5. 8.—Seeking whom he may devour. 


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Exod. 12. 14.—This day a memorial. 

Deut. 8. 2.—Thou shalt remember the way. 
Rom. 13. 7.—Honor. 

Eph. 5. 25.—Husbands, love your wives. 

3 John 1. 9.—Diotrephes. 


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In early life Stonewall Jackson determined to CONQUER the 
physical, mental, and moral weakness of his nature. When he 
was a small boy a mustard plaster was placed on his chest, and 
to divert his mind he was mounted on a horse and sent on an 
errand to a neighbor’s house. After dismounting he fainted be¬ 
cause of the pain. “Did you leave the plaster on in order to 
obey your guardian?” asked the late General Hill of Jackson. 
“No,” he answered, “but from a feeling that I must not yield to 
trials or difficulties,” and in what would be considered a strange, 
eccentric fashion he kept his body under, not using tobacco, nor 
coffee, nor spirits, not wearing cloak or overcoat, even in the 
mountains of Virginia, because, he said, he “did not want to give 
way to the cold.” 

He applied the same “Stonewall” quality in church affairs. 

His pastor once called upon him to pray in public, and he did 
so, but with such confusion of utterance that the pastor told him 
that he would never require it of him again. Jackson replied 
that he did not wish to be excused. It was a cross to him, but 
he persevered and became fluent in public PRAYER. 

His pastor once remarked: “In our country a man who can 
speak multiplies himself by five.” Jackson was impressed; he 
organized a debating society and after much effort became an 
impressive, though never eloquent, speaker. 

This self-denial and SELF-CONTROL explains his wonderful 
success. No self-indulgent man was ever truly great, but he who 
conquers self is thus FITTED to conquer for others. 

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An old SAILOR says: “I often recall my first night at sea. A 
storm came up and we put back under a point of land. Still the 
sea had a rake on us, we were in DANGER of DRIFTING. 

“I was on the ANCHOR watch and it was my duty to give 
WARNING in case the ship should drag her anchor. I found 
that by placing my hand on the chain I could tell by the feel of 
it if the anchor was dragging or not, and very often that night I 
went forward and placed my hand on that chain. 

“Since that time when I wonder whether I am DRIFTING 
away from God I go and put my hand on the ‘anchor chain,’ the 
chain of PRAYER.” Let us remember, all of us, that we have an 
“anchor-watch” for the lives of those about us. 

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General Grant’s EXAMPLE in strictly keeping the SABBATH 
day while on his tour around the world was a surprise to many 
of the Royal personages who entertained him, but it was an 
example that will reach in its INFLUENCE into the decades. 

Those who were tempted to think that greatness or genius or 
a place on the scroll of fame EXCUSES one from keeping the Ten 
Commandments find no encouragement to such thought in the 
life of this great religious HERO. 


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Zech. 4. 10.—The day of small things. 

Heb. 10. 36.—Ye have need of patience. 

1 Cor. 15. 10.—I am what I am. 

Eph. 4. 14.—Carried about by every wind of doctrine. 
Prov. 16. 32.—He that ruleth his own spirit. 


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Lev. 6. 13.—Fire shall be kept burning on the altar. 
Matt. 6. 6.—And when thou hast shut the door. 

1 Cor. 11. 28.—Let a man examine himself. 

Heb. 6. 19.—An anchor of the soul. 


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Exod. 20. 8.—Remember the Sabbath day. 

Psa. 18. 49.—I will give thanks among the nations. 

Isa. 58. 13.—The set apart of Jehovah, honorable. 

Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience. 

2 Cor. 6. 17.—Be ye separate, saith the Lord. 

Heb. 10. 25.—Nor forsaking the assembling of yourselves 
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Disraeli once said: “SILENCE is the mother of TRUTH.” It 
is just as truly the mother of high achievements and successful 
RESOLVE—it is the citadel in which the soul finds spiritual 
strength and listens to the “Still Small VOICE.” 

In “Unseen Forces and How to Use them,” the author em¬ 
phasizes this fact—“All the great movements of human history 
that have been wrought with infinite blessing to humanity were 
conceived and born in dead SILENCE. Christianity, in its 
beautiful simplicity the most precious movement that ever en¬ 
tered human history, and its author HABITUALLY entered into 
the SILENCE—all the great men of history since his time who 
have benefited the world by their achievements, have been men 
who habitually entered into the SILENCE of the INVISIBLE. 

Martin Luther remains in the silence of his cell, and when he 
comes out he shakes Europe, and overturns the thrones of des¬ 
potism. John Bunyan is thrown into the SILENCE of Bedford 
JAIL. There he obtains INSPIRATION for “Pilgrim’s Progress.” 

Pottle 316 

Sandow’s story of the way he developed his muscle was told 
by him in Leslie’s Weekly. He was a weakling as a child—was 
not expected to be fit for any strenuous career, but a VISION of 
physical perfection kindled in him a RESOLVE to attain it. 

“I went into Italy,” he says, “and there my eyes were opened. 
The Greek and Roman statues I saw there inspired me at once 
to lift from myself the stigma of WEAKNESS, for I somehow 
felt that even in our time the weak man is despised. 

“I went at the labor of revitalization with energy and persist¬ 
ence. You perceive I have somewhat succeeded. Let me tell 
you I am still at it. I maintain that it is possible for any man 
to emulate my EXAMPLE, as I emulated Greeks and Romans.” 

So we, when we look at life examples in physical and in intel¬ 
lectual and in spiritual, should be drawn to make vows and 
inspired to a successful effort. 

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In 1517 there was a great riot in London—houses w r ere sacked— 
and general INSURRECTION reigned. 

Three hundred were arrested, tried, and hanged, five hundred 
were cast into prison and were to be tried before the king, Henry 
VIII. As he sat in state on the THRONE the door opened and 
in they came, five hundred, every man with a rope about his 
neck. Before SENTENCE could be passed on them, three Queens 
entered—Catharine of Aragon, wife of the King, Margaret of 
Scotland, sister of the King, and Mary, of France. 

They approached the throne, knelt at the feet of his majesty, 
and there remained pleading until the King FORGAVE the five 
hundred trembling men. 

We ADMIRE the spirit of these three Queens. We can 
EXAMPLE it as we KNEEL before the throne, for the guilty. 


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Isa. 46. 10.—Be still and know. 

Eccl. 3. 7.—A time to keep silence. 

James 1. 19.—Swift to hear, slow to speak. 

Isa. 19. 12.—After the fire a sound of gentle stillness. 
1 Thes. 4. 11. —Study to he quiet. 


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Heb. 10. 24.—Consider one another, and excite unto. 
Exod. 35. 21.—Everyone whose heart stirs him up. 
Eccl. 5. 4.—Pay that which thou hast vowed. 

Eccl. 9. 10.—Do it with thy might. 

Dan. 5. 27.—Weighed in the balances—found wanting. 
Mark 4. 28.—After that, the full corn in the ear. 

1 Cor. 6. 19.—Your body, a temple of the Holy Spirit. 


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Rom. 6. 23.—The wages is death; the gift is life. 

Heb. 7. 25.—He ever liveth to make intercession for them. 
James 5. 16.—Supplication availeth much. 

Luke 11. 8.—Because of importunity he will rise and give. 
Mark 15. 31.—He saved others, himself he cannot save. 
Luke 11. 9.—Keep asking and it shall be given. 


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Lady Henry Somerset, whose philanthropies and eloquence in 
the cause of humanity have won for her a world-wide FAME, 
tells us of her life and the change that came to her. 

She w T as in earlier life a woman of the world, given over to 
FASHION and PLEASURE—she inherited immense WEALTH, 
and so had the power to gratify every desire, but in the squander¬ 
ing of the money on herself she soon failed to find SATISFAC¬ 
TION, and in saving it she found neither pleasure nor peace. 

She continued to squander and to save by turns, and became 
more and more DISSATISFIED. 

She turned to the Bible and studied it earnestly, and soon 
felt the need of Christian CONSECRATION. She desired it, 
but with the heavy spirit of criticism about her she could not 
find COURAGE to take the formal step she hoped might be the 
step to LIBERTY—faith seemed to weaken and doubt clouded 
her mind with its perplexity, but still she searched the Scriptures 
and like Nicodemus of old served God the best she could in 
secret. Then one day as she was walking in her gardens she 
heard a voice say distinctly, “As if I were, and you shall know 
that I am.” The voice was not audible to the material ear, and 
yet Lady Henry declares that she heard the words in her soul as 
distinctly as though they had been spoken into her ear. 

She took courage and continued to follow the counsel of 
words and soon was able to stand in The Holy of Holies, where 
God was to be seen—she was able now to publicly turn from her 
former life. 

She entered a life of blessed and blessing benevolence, and the 
world knows of her life of faith and faithfulness. 


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In speaking of the flight of birds The American Inventor says: 
“One who has watched a heavy bird RISE from the ground has 
doubtless noticed that it runs along the ground for a few feet 
before it rises. The bird must acquire some momentum before 
its wings can lift its body into the air. The natives in certain 
parts of the Andes understand this fact and by means of it 
catch the great Andean vultures called condors. 

A small space is shut in with a high fence and left open at the 
top. Then a lamb or piece of carrion is placed on the ground on 
the inside. 

Presently a CONDOR sees the BAIT and swoops down upon it, 
but when once he has alighted on the ground on the inside, he 
finds he cannot get out, for he has not enough running space in 
order to rise above the fence. 

Like the condor of the Andes are we in moral and spiritual 
make-up, and as the natives take advantage of their knowledge, 
so the devil takes advantage of us. We need to be more than 
careful that the ground on which we find ourselves has enough 
of “running space” about it for our escape, else we shall be 
entrapped. 


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1 Tim. 4. 32.—Be thou an ensample in faith. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is love (Life-reach). 
John 7. 17.—If any man will do he shall know. 
Matt. 23. 11.—He that is greatest, servant. 

Matt. 20. 28.—To minister and to give his life. 


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Psa. 119. 110.—The wicked have laid a snare. 
Heb. 3. 13.—The deceitfulness of sin. 

1 Tim. 6. 9.—They that will be rich. 

2 Thes. 2. 10.—With all deceivableness. 

Eph. 6. 12.—Against principalities and powers. 
2 Cor. 11. 14.—Satan as an angel of light. 
Josh. 9. 4.—They did work wilily. 



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There is a palm tree fable that speaks a beautiful message. 

It grew by the side of a stream far back from the dwellings of 
men and yearly dropped its cocoanuts into the passing waters, 
to be carried away. The years passed and the palm tree made 
COMPLAINT of its worthlessness and grew DISCOURAGED, 
thinking its product was LOST and useless, for never a man 
passed to pick up its fruit from under its branches. It was 
HIDDEN too far from the haunts of men. 

Far out at sea was a shipwreck and crew and passengers were 
cast upon a coral island. Here they were kept alive and were 
able to shelter themselves because of palm trees in groves here 
and there on the island. They made huts and thatched the 
roofs with leaves; they had cocoanut for food and the cocoanut 
milk to drink, instead of the salt waters of the sea. The palm 
groves and their FRUIT were there because the fabled palm was 
bearing its hidden fruitage far back in the mountain hills. The 
currents of the stream carried out its fruitage to the sea and the 
rising of tides planted its fruitage on the isle, and so the ship¬ 
wrecked crew had not only an island of beauty, but an island 
of life. So oftentimes it is in real life; it is the hidden, the 
unknown, and oftentimes for a while the discouraged life that 
feeds not only shipwrecked crews but a shipwrecked multitude. 

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Dr. Joseph Parker says: “When I see a sinner run into sin I 
feel as if he might have been made by the Devil, but when he 
stands still and bethinks himself—when the hot TEARS fill his 
eyes—when he sighs toward heaven a sigh of bitterness and true 
penitence—and looking around to assure himself of solitude, he 
falls down to PRAY without words; then I see a dim outline of 
the IMAGE and likeness in which he was created. I begin to 
see the man that accounts for the CROSS.” 

pottle 322 

Many stories are told of the DEVOTION of the Highlanders of 
Scotland to their hereditary chiefs. One is told of Charles Edward 
Stuart, the Pretender, who was DEFEATED at Culloden. 

“The chief of the Macphersons having been engaged in the in¬ 
surrection, his life was forfeited to the laws, but neither the 
hope of reward nor the fear of danger could induce any of his 
people to BETRAY him, and so for nine years he lived concealed 
in a cave a short distance from his own house. 

“The cave had been prepared by his own people, who worked at 
night and carried the stones into a neighboring lake, that no 
vestige of their labor might appear. More than one thousand 
persons knew of his concealment and a REWARD of one thousand 
pounds was offered to any one who should give information in 
regard to the chief, yet not a man was base enough to betray him, 
and so expert were they in conveying to him the necessaries he 
required that not a trace of him could be discovered.” 


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Mark 7. 24.—He could not be hid. 

Gen. 49. 22.—His branches run over the wall. 

Isa. 27. 6.—Fill the face of the world with truth. 
Matt. 20. 28.—To minister and to give his life. 
Gal. 6. 9.—In due season we shall reap. 

1 Cor. 15. 58.—Always abounding in work. 


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Psa. 17. 15.—I shall be satisfied. 

Psa. 8. 4.—What is man? 

Luke 18. 13.—God be merciful to me a sinner. 
Luke 15. 18.—I will arise and go to my father. 
Gen. 1. 27.—In the image of God created he him. 
Gen. 4. 6.—Why is thy countenance fallen? 


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Ruth 1. 14.—But Ruth clave unto her. 
Matt. 26. 15.—For thirty pieces of silver. 
John 14. 3.—To prepare a place for you. 


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The Duchess Isabella, wishing earnestly to obtain some object, 
was, we are told, instructed by the crafty court astrologer to 
KISS day by day for a hundred days a certain beautiful picture 
and she would receive her wish. The picture contained a subtle 
POISON which stained the lips, and so by littles the golden 
tresses of the queenly woman turned white—her eyes became 
dim, but still ambitious for the object of her request, INFATU¬ 
ATED for the lover she desired, the suicidal KISS continued, and 
before the hundred days the ENSNARED Queen was dead. 


Pottle 324 

The Great Napoleon once said: “The only way to have a 
CONQUERING army is to have an army that is always fighting.” 

No church can be a conquering church that is not always 
FIGHTING—no Christian can be a CONQUERING Christian who 
is not always FIGHTING. 


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If I would talk with God, my hasty tongue 
Must hold itself for that high converse PURE, 

As one who has appointment with a king 
Scorns GOSSIP with a minion at the gate. 

If I would listen to the voice of God, 

I dare not hear the PRATTLEMENT of men, 

The bargaining, the vaunting, the untruth. 

The words that crawl and sting; for ears have room 
For somewhat, and no more. If I would walk 
Beside my God, His COMRADE and His FRIEND, 

I must go his way, he will not go mine. 

If I would own the wealth of God, the gold. 

The gems of affluent heaven, like the dross 
Of basest REFUSE I must hurl away 
The spoil of great and all the miser’s glut. 

If I would know the wondrous lore of God, 

What sciences I shall not dare to know! 

If I would wield the awful POWER of God, 

How I must sink myself in helplessness! 

What lesser loves must I disdain to sever! 

Oh, infinite, oh, Lover, oh, Supreme, 

Father and Leader and Unfailing Friend, 

What littles must I gladly LOSE for thee, 

What nothings must I tread beneath my feet 
To reach Thy hand, thy bosom, and thy face! 

—Amos R. Wells. 


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Gen. 19. 20.—Is it not a little one? 

Josh. 9. 4.—They did work wilily. 

Prov. 23. 2.—A man given to appetite. 

Matt. 24. 24.—Deeeive if possible the elect. 

1 Cor. 10. 12.—Let him that standeth take heed. 

Heb. 3. 13.—The deceitfulness of sin. 

James 3. 5.—How great a matter a little fire kindleth. 


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1 Cor. 15. 58.—Always abounding in work. 

Eccl. 9. 10.—Do it with thy might. 

Acts 26. 22.—I continue unto this day witnessing. 


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Gen. 7. 16.—Come thou into the ark. 

Gen. 5. 24.—Enoch walked with God, God took him. 

1 Kings 9. 7.—Behold the half was not told me. 

Psa. 19. 10.—Sweeter than droppings of the honeycomb. 
Matt. 6. 6.—And when thou hast shut the door. 

1 Cor. 10. 4.—The rock that followed them was Christ. 


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One of the strange fruits of Japanese horticulture is the culti¬ 
vation of DWARF trees. 

The Japanese grow forest giants in flower pots. 

Some of these strange LILLIPUTIAN trees are essentially OLD 
and are only two or three feet high. 

The gardener takes great pains to keep them little. His purpose 
is to grow dwarf trees, and from the time of their planting they 
are repressed and starved. 

God’s plan for life is the very opposite, but evil HABITS and 
Sin will cramp our spiritual natures. Just so much of self-in¬ 
dulgence and the life will be so much dwarfed. A giant tree 
cannot find rootage in a flower pot, nor can a giant life find 
ROOTAGE except in the deep SOILS of God’s great Book. 

pottle 327 

The Ladies’ Home Journal tells of the fascinating LOVE which 
existed between Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 

Clifford Howard, who writes the article, relates that when Mr. 
Browning returned with her on a visit to England, after an 
absence of several years, he repaired to the little church in 
which they had been married, and there at the entrance he 
REVERENTLY knelt and kissed the paving stones. 

And in after years when the light had gone from his life he 
sought this SACRED spot on the 12th of each September, and in 
the dusk of the evening the white-haired man knelt for a 
moment as if in prayer before the dark and silent church. 

During her long illness he nursed her with pathetic CARE, 
oftentimes would he rise early in the morning, long e’er the 
time for her awakening and hastening into the fields, gather a 
bunch of fragrant blossoms to place at her bedside that they 
might be the first realities of life to greet her. 

Love makes SERVICE light—LOVE never asks how little it 
can do, nor how little it can give, but how MUCH. 

Love to the Son of God will make us tireless in ERRANDS of 
mercy in his name. 

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Rev. Jesse F. Forbes, of New York City, gives this boy-expe¬ 
rience: “As a boy I became interested in butterflies. One day in 
overturning the soil I found a chrysalis of one of the largest and 
most beautiful of our Northern moths. Carrying it home I 
awaited developments. In due time I saw it struggling to 
emerge. It was a difficult task. The poor moth writhed and 
twisted, but the hard shell of the chrysalis resisted its 
EFFORTS. To make the TASK easier, I parted the covering. 

Being released, however, instead of flying gracefully around 
the room, it moved its wings a few times in a feeble way and 
soon fell upon the table lifeless. 

Years after I learned that the STRUGGLES which seemed to 
me so hard were necessary for its development. 

I gave it ease but sacrificed its life. 


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1 Cor. 3. 1.—As unto carnal, babes in Christ. 

Heb. 6. 1.—Press on unto full growth. 

John 10. 10.—That they might have it abundantly. 
Luke 10. 7.—Mary who sat at the Lord’s feet. 


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Eph. 5. 25.—Husbands, love your wives. 

Exod. 12. 14.—This day for a memorial. 

2 Sam. 24. 24.—Not offer that which costs me nothing. 
2 Sam. 1. 26.—Thy love to me was wonderful. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the spirit is love. 


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2 Tim. 2. 3.—Endure hardness as a good soldier. 

2 Kings 3. 11.—Poured water on the hands of Elijah. 
Lam. 3. 27.—Good to bear the yoke in youth. 

Heb. 11. 34.—Out of weakness were made strong. 


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A European traveler on his way from the coast in Madagascar 
to the captal, Tananarivo, in the interior, had drank all the 
water from his water flask and was suffering of thirst; he in¬ 
quired of one of the natives of his party when they should he 
able to obtain water. The native answered, “Any time you like,” 
and led to a group of palmlike trees on the edge of the forest. 

He pierced the root of one of the leaf stems at the point where 
it joined the tree, whereupon a stream of clear water spurted 
out, cool, fresh, and excellent to DRINK. 

At the next village the guide conducted the traveler to the 
hut of a friend, who soon spread a meal for them. 

As they sat at the table the guide said: “Before we begin our 
meal I must tell you that everything upon this table comes from 
‘the travelers’ tree.’ This table cloth is made of the fibers of 
the leaves; these drinking cups, plates, and knives are made of 
wood or the bark of the tree. What you think to be cream is a 
dish made of the seeds of the tree. 

“What you think are almonds are little cakes made of these 
seeds and the oil is pressed from the skin of the seeds. Not only 
do we get these and the water you have already drank, but some 
of the people of Madagascar have made a kind of cloth that 
they wear.” 

The word of God is the “travelers’ tree,” for every soul of every 
country, in every clime. The great pity is that the multitudes are 
like this European traveler before he received his information 
from the natives. 

That which would SATISFY the life—its thirst, its hunger, its 
shelter, and its raiment, is near at hand, but the one who is in 
need has not HEARD or has not BELIEVED. 

Pottle 330 

The late Mrs. Rebekah Salome Foster became known as the 
“Tombs’ Angel.” She was a woman of WEALTH, culture, and 
social position, but for many a year she gave herself to visiting 
the inmates of the New York City Prison. 

This, among other incidents, is told of her: “Visiting the 
women’s cells one evening, she found a young girl who seemed 
to be upon the verge of madness, and who implored her not to 
go away, but to remain with her through the night. 

“The warden gave permission and all through the night the 
‘Tombs’ Angel’ sat by the distracted prisoner, holding in her 
own the girl’s hand, whose fingers closed over hers as if the 
hand clasp alone kept her wretched soul from sinking into 
despair. 

“When the rays of dawn shone into the dismal prison cell, 
though the right hand of the ‘Tombs’ Angel’ was lamed by the 
long strain, the prisoner’s reason was safe.” 

And the prisoner was ready to be led to the Saviour by the 
“Angel” who watched by her through the night; not all of wealth 
is curse, nor all the wealthy without the spirit of the great 
Christ. 


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1 Pet. 2. 7.—Unto you therefore he is precious. 

Psa. 19. 10.—Sweeter than the droppings of the honeycomb. 
John 10. 10.—That they might have life abundantly. 

Num. 10. 29.—We are journeying, come thou with us. 


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Matt. 25. 36.—In prison and ye came unto me. 

John 13. 15.—I have given you an example. 

Luke 10. 27.—Love the Lord and thy neighbor. 

Phil. 2. 7.—Counted it not a prize—but humbled himself. 

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In the year 1904 a New York daily contained an account of a 
unique GOSPEL meeting, held by the Hudson County branch of 
the Young Men’s Christian Association, in Jersey City. 

The following is the report: “We will commence our service 
by singing ‘Wonderful Words of Life,’ ” said the leader in the 
machine, and then the phonograph sang the Gospel hymn through 
a megaphone. “What is your favorite hymn?” asked the phono¬ 
graph, and a young man in the congregation replied: “Saved by 
Grace,” and the congregation sang the words and chorus. “Lewis 
Steck will lead in prayer,” said the machine, and then it repeated 
a prayer made by Mr. Steck several days before. 

This phonographic religion lifts up before us an interrogation 
as to the tendency to FORMS and ceremonies and LITANIES 
in our worship of God in his sanctuary. It is the business of the 
Church to discern and determine if these are helps or hindrances, 
and whether they are “Forms of Godliness” without POWER, or 
with power; there is a form with and a form without power. 

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In Toledo, Ohio, some years since, in a United Brethren church, 
was demonstrated the POWER of the gospel. In the basement 
with the janitor was an old man of nearly eighty years. 

The story is of a man who had been an INFIDEL, a man 
who had gathered an infidel library from all parts of the world. 
He had a godly praying WIFE who not long before this had died; 
she pleaded with him to ACCEPT Christ, but he refused. 

One night he was using the PHONOGRAPH when one of the 
records began to play “Rock of Ages, Cleft for me,” and while it 
played the old infidel, under the weight of nearly eighty years, 
saw the CROSS and slipped into the cleft of the rock. 

And here in the basement of the church, with the help of the 
janitor, he is turning his infidel library into flame and smoke. 
As in the days of Paul, the “Good-tidings” is the POWER of God. 

Pottle 333 

There is said to be in South Africa a plant or tree known as the 
“HOOK plant,” that was responsible during the Boer WAR for 
the death of a great many of the British soldiers. 

Its branches tendril-like droop and drop toward the ground 
like the weeping willow, and at the end of these tendril-like 
branches is that which gives the tree its name. As the SOLDIERS 
would pass under these trees their clothing would be caught by 
one or more of these hooks, and the more they would seek to 
disentangle themselves, the more they would be ENTRAPPED. 
There was only one way for release, and that was to have some¬ 
one to cut loose the hooks. Many thoughtlessly struggled and 
were held fast until the Boers were able to thrust them through. 

So SINS that take hold of us, though only “hook-plant” ten¬ 
drils, take us CAPTIVE more and more unless Christ disen¬ 
gage us. 


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Mark 7. 6.—Their heart is far from them. 

2 Tim. 3. 5.—A form of godliness. 

Psa. 98. 5.—With the harp and the voice of melody. 


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Isa. 28. 20.—The bed is shorter, the covering narrower. 

1 Cor. 10. 4.—The rock that followed them was Christ. 

2 Sam. 9. 12.—Mephibosheth as one of the king’s sons. 

2 Chron. 29. 27.—When the burnt offering began, the song 
began. 


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Deut. 12. 30.—Enquire not after their gods (separation). 
Judg. 2. 3.—As thorns in your side. 

2 Sam. 3. 33.—Died Abner as a fool dieth. 

Psa. 119. 110.—The wicked have laid a snare for me. 

Prov. 27. 12.—A prudent man seeth, but the simple. 

Isa. 5. 13.—Into captivity because no knowledge. 


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Richmond Pearson Hobson, late of the United States Navy, in 
a public address in Brooklyn, N. Y., urged his hearers to make a 
closer investigation of the religious life of the Navy. 

Said he: “It is a good thing for us to be PROUD of our 
country, because it is great, but it is a better thing to LOVE her 
because she is GOOD.” 

He made this startling statement: “You cannot name a navy 
officer who is not a God-fearing man. He is bound to be a God¬ 
fearing man. The Government does not take any chances. 

“For four years every man of them goes to church every Sun¬ 
day, and every fourth Sunday you will hear a clause something 
like this: ‘It is enjoined upon every officer and enlisted man to 
attend the service of God.’ 

“Let me suggest that you go down here in Brooklyn on one of 
those ships—they will be glad to have you come—arrange to get 
there about 10:30 sharp. The bugle will begin to blow slowly. 
That is the call for divine service. 

“Then you will see the FLAG lowered and another flag go away 
up in the air. Look at this, please. 

“It is a white CROSS, with a blue background. You will see 
the National flag go up again slowly and stop just below the 
other FLAG. This is to me very impressive. 

“My friends, you know there is not another flag above our 
stars and stripes, but here you will see it looking up in 
HUMILITY to the flag of the WHITE CROSS above. 

“It does not take much imagination to grasp this symbolism 
and we can hope that the country whose flag floats under the 
flag of the CROSS will be one of God’s great powers for 
RIGHTEOUSNESS in the world.” 


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In India, at Mukti, where Pundita Ramabai has a home for 
WIDOWS, they are so earnest in PRAYER that they have estab¬ 
lished a unique “prayer tower,” from which for several hours 
prayer has continually ascended day and night. Two by two the 
workers go up an hour at a time, Ramabai herself taking the 
midnight hour from twelve to one o’clock. They have a large 
praying band at Mukti to pray for each individual community 
by name every day, and one of the most striking manifestations 
of REVIVAL has been witnessed in Ramabai’s school, where 
hundreds of natives are being educated. Whole nights would be 
spent in AGONIZING with God. At length the school was 
transformed and praying bands were organized in it, who went 
out through the provinces, conducting meetings and pleading for 
the unsaved. 

As a result many have CONFESSED the sin and made 
RESTITUTION of money stolen and have given proof of the 
grace of God in their lives. For more than two years this great 
work has steadily been continued and is a proof from God that 
PRAYER is still ANSWERED, even in the twentieth century. 


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Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is goodness (Life-reenforcement). 

Col. 1. 18.—That he might have the preeminence. 

Psa. 144. 15.—Very happy is the people whose God is the Lord. 
2 Kings 8. 12.—Why we beset my lord? (Patriotism.) 

Rev. 19. 6.—The Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 


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Luke 6. 12.—And continued all night in prayer. 

1 Chron. 13. 3.—We enquired not in the days of Saul. 
Ezra 8. 22.—Ashamed to ask of the king. 

Neh. 8. 1.—All the people as one man. 

Isa. 40. 31.—They that waste, pass on their strength. 
James 5. 16.—Supplication availeth much. 


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The first Victoria crosses were awarded in Hyde Park, London, 
in 1857. The following is a description of one of the pathetic 
incidents of their awarding: “A veteran, terribly maimed, came 
up to receive his MEDAL and the Queen, flinging down the 
medal, turned her back upon the troops and covering her face 
with her hands, burst into tears. 

“All the while the maimed man stood still; then the Queen 
recovered her composure and pinned the medal to his coat. As 
she did so she spoke some words to him, and the soldier’s answer 
was: ‘God Bless your Majesty, we’d bear it all again for Queen 
and country.’ ‘For Queen and country’ is a great WATCHWORD, 
but there is a greater one; it is this, ‘For God and humanity.’” 

When we repeat the words of this SOLDIER to his queen, and 
look back over the little we have borne, surely we cannot find it 
in our hearts to say less than “We’d bear it all again” for God and 
humanity. 


Pottle 337 

Professor Phillips tells the story of a BURGLAR who broke 
into a seaside mansion. He tumbled into the middle of the parlor 
floor all of the valuables he wished to take away, but in the 
corner of that parlor was a beautiful figure of Guido’s “Ecce 
Homo”—there was the CHRIST as only the Italian master could 
paint him. It would seem that the burglar stopped at his work 
of theft and began to study that face, and not being able to 
continue his theft while that face was looking at him, he turned 
the face of the Christ to the wall. 

Certainly it is not pleasant for the man in sin to find the 
Christ looking into his life, but the DANGER of eternal DEATH 
comes to the man whether he be burglar or moralist who turns 
the FACE of Christ away that he may, with more composure, 
continue in his chosen course of life and follow out his sin. 

Pottle 33S 

Queen Margherita, mother of King Victor Emmanuel, recently 
expressed her views on the woman question as follows: 

“I am absolutely opposed to any extravagant theories of what 
is called the emancipation of WOMEN. In whatever condition 
of life woman may be placed her first DUTY is the negative one 
of not giving up the qualities that distinguish her sex. 

“Above all, she should guard against developing the traits of 
men—a .blending of ancient RESERVE with modern INDE¬ 
PENDENCE would give us the IDEAL woman. Women show 
their intellectuality by rearing healthy and great CHILDREN 
just as much as they do by writing books and painting pictures. 

“The WIFE who deliberately refuses to bring children into the 
world must have something wrong with her MORAL makeup. 

“I am pleased to know that there is a movement in the United 
States in favor of large FAMILIES, and that the president has 
put himself on record as favoring them.” 


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Mark 15. 25.—There they crucified him. 

Isa. 53. 5.—By his stripes we are healed. 

Heb. 9. 22.—Without blood is no remission. 

Rev. 2. 10.—A crown of life. 

2 Pet. 1. 5.—Add in your faith, valor. 

2 Tim. 2. 3.—Endure hardness as a good soldier. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well-pleasing unto him. 


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Luke 22. 61.—The Lord turned and looked upon Peter. 
Gen. 16. 13.—Thou, God, seest me. 

Gen. 3. 9.—Who told thee thou wast naked? 

John 5. 22.—Hath committed all judgment unto the Son. 
John 19. 5.—Behold the man! 

Prov. 20. 27.—The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah. 
Isa. 28. 20.—The bed is shorter, the covering narrower. 


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Prov. 31. 28.—Her children call her blessed. 

Psa. 127. 3.—Children are an heritage of Jehovah. 

Mark 10. 30.—And they were bringing unto him. 

2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice. 


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Have you ever heard of the famous BELLS of Limerick 
Cathedral, in Ireland? They were the workmanship of a young 
Italian—of a POOR lad who, like Adrian VI, was too poor to pay 
for a light by which to study and was accustomed to read and 
prepare his lessons by the light in the street and the church 
porches. 

The young Italian DEVOTED many years of industrious and 
PATIENT TOIL in bringing these bells to what he deemed 
almost PERFECTION. 

War in due time broke out, which stripped him of his home 
and fortune. The bells were carried away, and he knew not 
where they had been taken. 

The Italian TRAMPED through many lands, until at length 
one sunny summer morning, like the evenings of Italy, as he 
was passing up the river SHANNON and as he drew near the 
city of Limerick, there came swelling from the Cathedral tower 
the familiar music of his own melodious bells. 

His heart was filled with strange delight—recollections of 
home and friends and MEMORY of happy days which had passed. 
He sat down and THOUGHT of this past and rejoiced in the 
discovery of his bells. 

And while he sat there his spirit left the body amid the music 
of his bells, and the wanderings of the ARTIST, old and gray, 
were ended. 


pottle 340 

It is a common error to believe that with birds the knowledge 
of building their NESTS is INNATE. 

It is a trade that is TAUGHT to every BIRD by its PARENTS, 
and in just as systematic a manner as men are TRAINED to be 
builders—birds are born with the instinct to carry little twigs 
and materials of which nests are made, but unless instructed in 
the art of building they will drop them in a pile and never 
attempt to weave them into nests. 

It is a TRADE most complicated and peculiarly their own. To 
arrange the twigs symmetrically and strong enough to hold the 
mother bird and four or five little ones to the branch of a tree 
requires engineering ability. 

And the lining of the nest Is often made of softer material, the 
placing of which must be taught by the older birds. This part 
of the trade, like the finishing of a house, is the expert part. 
Humming birds will often follow crows for days to pick up their 
soft hair, with which to line their nests, and they WEAVE these 
together almost as compactly as a piece of flannel is woven. 

Birds that have always been in cages can never make nests, and 
are pitiably clumsy even when cotton is given them. 

So God has appointed to those of older years and especially to 
the parent the duty of training the sons and daughters of our 
homes for life vocations and a life work in keeping with the 
purpose of their creations. 


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Gen. 1. 27.—In the image of God created he him. 

Psa. 17. 15.—I shall be satisfied. 

Phil. 3. 20.—My citizenship is in heaven, from whence. 
Heb. 13. 14.—We have here no continuing city. 


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Prov. 22. 6.—Train up a child, he will not depart. 

Prov. 31. 28.—Her children call her blessed. 

Ezek. 18. 2.—The children’s teeth are set on edge. 

2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy grandmother, Lois, and thy mother, Eunice. 
Joel 1. 3.—Tell your children of it. 

Luke 1. 17.—The hearts of fathers to the children. 


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A remarkable operation took place in Philadelphia in April, 
1907. A woman thirty-five years of age had become a sufferer from 
anaemia and her physician had her removed to a hospital. There 
a consultation of physicians took place and the conclusion was 
that she could only be SAVED by the transfusion of BLOOD. 

Her husband offered himself for the purpose; quickly baring 
the husband’s arm he was etherized and husband and wife lay 
side by side, unconscious, one from the death-like COMA peculiar 
to the disease, the other from the anaesthetic. 

The pulse artery in the husband’s arm was severed and at the 
same time the large vein in the wife’s left arm was opened and 
the free end of the husband’s artery inserted and the juncture 
clinched with tiny needles. 

Every beat of the man’s heart sent a stream of the red 
BLOOD into the wife’s body. 

As each drop trickled in the effect became noticeable, and as 
time passed it was apparent that LIFE was returning to the 
woman’s body, and the result was her ultimate recovery. 

Through some invisible transfusion the BLOOD of the Christ 
which is the only HOPE of anaemic humanity, brings recovery, 
and fullest health. 


Pottle 342 

A little boy leaned on the fence, watching the birds playing in 
the field. At length a little songster perched herself on the 
bough of a tree close by. The boy, picking up a stone at his 
feet, prepared to throw the stone, but before the stone was thrown 
the little MINSTREL in the tree began her song. 

Slowly the boy’s arm fell to its natural position and the stone 
dropped from his hand. He LISTENED till the SONG had 
ceased and watched the bird fly away. 

“Why did you not stone him, my boy?’’ asked a gentleman. 

“Couldn’t,’’ was the brief reply. “Couldn’t, ’cos he sung so!” 

And the soul that listens for the minstrelsies of the minstrel 
Christ will be charmed to give up many a PURPOSED SIN. 

And the life that sings like that bird in the tree will have to 
its credit lives of others CHARMED from sins. 

Pottle 343 

An American Indian going to Washington on diplomatic busi¬ 
ness for his TRIBE was asked what was the most wonderful thing 
he had seen He did not mention the great Capitol, nor the 
Washington monument, nor telephone, nor phonograph, nor 
telegraph. 

He said; “This is the most wonderful thing. White man knew 
about white man’s God one hundred years and never came to 
TELL poor INDIAN—and it’s LATE now, it’s late now.” 

The one fact that shows an amazing strangeness in human life 
is that it naturally TELLS good news, except the good news of 
the Christ and his CROSS. 


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John 6. 53.—Except ye drink the blood. 

Jer. 17. 9.—The heart is desperately sick. 

Mark 15. 31.—He saved others—himself he cannot save. 
Rom. 6. 23.—The wages of sin is death, the gift is life. 
Zech. 14. 1.—A fountain opened for sin. 

Gal. 2. 20.—Christ liveth in me. 

Eph. 5. 25.—Husbands, love your wives. 

Col. 1. 27.—Christ in you the hope of glory. 


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Gen. 1. 27.—In the image of God. 

Exod. 4. 2.—What is that in thy hand? 

Psa. 17. 15.—I shall be satisfied. 

Song 5. 10.—Chiefest among ten thousand. 
Gen. 4. 6.—Why is thy countenance fallen? 
Rev. 5. 9.—And they sing a new song. 


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Isa. 61. 1.—Anointed to preach, to bind, to comfort, to give. 

Isa. 52. 7.—How beautiful are the feet of him that bringeth good 
tidings! 

Ezek. 33. 6.—His blood at the watchman’s hand. 

Jonah 2. 1.—Prayed out of the fish’s belly. 

Mark 16. 15.—Go ye into all the world and preach. 


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!n the heart of Africa it is related by an Englishman a SLAVE 
procession passed by and the king called out a poor slave who 
had displeased him and ordered his men to put their arrows to 
their bowstrings and avenge the offense with his BLOOD. 

This Englishman went to the chief and begged for the poor 
slave’s life; he offered money and costly bribes, but the chief 
turned and said: “I don’t want ivory, or slaves, or gold. I can 
capture these in the stores and villages of the under tribe. I 
want no favors from the white man. All I want is blood.” 

Then he ordered one of his men to pull his bowstring and 
discharge an arrow at the heart of the poor slave. 

The young Englishman, with the instinct of the moment, threw 
himself in front and held up his arm, and the next moment the 
arrow was quivering in the flesh of his arm. 

He pulled the arrow from his arm and the blood flowed, and 
he said to the chief: “Here is BLOOD. Here is my blood. I give 
it for this poor slave, and I claim his LIFE.” 

The native chief had never seen such a spectacle before and 
was conquered by it and gave the slave to the white man. 

He said: “Yes, white man has bought him with his blood, and 
he shall be his,” and the poor slave threw himself at the feet of 
his DELIVERER, tears flowing down his face, and said: “Oh, 
white man, you have bought Lebe with your own blood—Lebe 
shall be your slave forever.” 

And ever after he would not take his LIBERTY; wherever the 
Englishman went, there Lebe was. No drudgery was too hard, 
no task too much. 

This was the attitude of a black man, a slave in the heart of 
Africa, toward his Christ-like deliverer, who, with one wound 
BOUGHT his life—what is thine attitude toward the Christ him¬ 
self, who, with seven wounds and life itself, has PURCHASED 
thee? 


Pottle 345 

The low-caste Hindus of one generation who become Christians 
are greatly uplifted socially and educationally and in the next 
generation and in the third generation they dispute leadership 
with the Brahmen, the HEREDITARY ARISTOCRACY of the 
land, so writes Bishop Olden. 

Well may Christianity say to India, give me the humblest and 
the lowest of your sons and daughters and in fifty years I will 
put their DESCENDANTS on a level with Brahmen priests and 
high-class pundits. 

What Christianity is doing for India it has always been doing 
and will always do in every land and for any life. It is the 
POWER of God unto SOUNDNESS. 


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Exod. 12. 14.—This day for a memorial. 

Exod. 30. 12.—Every man a ransom for his soul. 

Num. 29. 11.—The sin offering of atonement 
Num. 35. 11.—Cities of refuge (Miklot cities). 

Heb. 9. 22.—Without shedding of blood is no remission. 


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1 Chron. 13. 3.—We enquired not in the days of Saul. 
1 Chron. 4. 9.—Jabez more honorable (prayer). 

Psa. 40. 2.—Out of the pit of tumult. 

Isa. 55. 13.—Instead of the thorn the fir tree. 

Heb. 12. 2.—Every weight and sin, by looking. 


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Lottie 346 

Charles Alexander, the evangelistic singer, tells of an incident 
in one of their meetings in Iowa. 

A young fellow who was very illiterate was CONVERTED. 
Soon after his conversion he came to Mr. Alexander and Said: 
“Charley, I want to go with you in the work.” Mr. Alexander 
said: “Fred, you could not go with us in the work—you can 
scarcely read. What could you do?” “Oh,” he replied, “I could 
take care of the tent, black your boots; do anything, but I MUST 
go with you.” 

He not only attended to the janitor work of the tent, but 
proved a most efficient soul WINNER. People entirely overlooked 
his ungrammatical speech and he succeeded with many cases 
where every one else failed. 

Pie not only led the most desperate cases among lower classes 
to Christ, but also was used among the cultured and refined. 

He kept an accurate record of all those whom he led to 
Christ and in five years was used of God in PERSONAL work to 
the salvation of twelve hundred persons. 

bottle 347 

An editorial in Forestry and Irrigation speaks about the con¬ 
flict between a large oak and a grape vine in a North Carolina 
forest as follows: “Here you see a sturdy live oak, perhaps 
several centuries old, and beside it in early days a grape vine 
started its growth. Little by little it extended its octopus-like 
branches up and finally over the oak, and in course of time it 
nearly enveloped it—appropriating to itself the life-giving sun¬ 
light which the oak was starving. How long these STRUGGLES 
must have continued is shown by the great size of the vine, but 
its trunk has attained the unusual size of nearly a foot in diameter. 

For a time it was winning the VICTORY, as is further attested 
by the fact that it had partly killed the tree, some of whose 
branches are dead. But its massive folds near the base had be¬ 
come involved in the crotch of this great double tree, which 
gradually closed in upon it, constricting it as with monstrous 
jaws until it has nearly killed out the vine. 

Some men in their fight against SIN seem to succeed and 
their lives to all appearance is a VICTORY, but if the word of 
God is true there comes a time when, as in the North Carolina 
forest, the apparent triumph will be a demonstrated failure. 

pottle 348 

Dean Farrar, as one of Queen Victoria’s chaplains, once 
preached before her at Windsor on the SECOND ADVENT of 
CHRIST. After the service the Queen said: “Oh, how I wish that, 
the Lord might COME during my lifetime!” “Why does your 
Majesty feel this very earnest desire?” asked Dr. Farrar. 

The Queen replied, with quivering lips and her whole counte¬ 
nance lighted by deep emotion: “I should so love to lay my 
CROWN at his feet!” 


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1 Chron. 4. 9.—Jabez more honorable than his brethren. 

Isa. 55. 13.—Instead of the thorn the fir tree. 

Rev. 3. 20.—I stand at the door and knock, if any man open. 
Heb. 11. 34.—Out of weakness were made strong. 


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Eph. 6. 12.—We fight against principalities and powers. 
2 Cor. 11. 14.—Satan as an angel of light. 

1 Cor. 15. 57.—Thanks to God who giveth us the victory. 
Rom. 3. 22.—There is no difference, all have sinned. 


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Rev. 22. 17.—Let him that heareth say come. 

Rev. 22. 4.—They shall see his face. 

Titus 2. 13.—Looking for the glorious appearing. 
Col. 3. 4.—When Christ our life shall be manifested. 
Phil. 3. 21.—Fashioned like unto his glorious body. 


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Dr. Cuyler speaks about a cavalry officer with a small number 
of followers who was pursued by an enemy and large force. 

He discovered that his saddle girth was becoming loose; he 
dismounted, tightened the loose girth and then rode on. Dr. 
Cuyler speaks of an application of this same idea in real life in 
the city of New York, where a delay in business for the purpose 
of religious MEDITATION and WORSHIP was the daily HABIT. 

He says: “One of the most eminent Christian MERCHANTS 
in New York city told me that he never met his family at the 
breakfast table until he had had a refreshing interview with 
God over his Bible and on his knees, and this, with his FAMILY 
worship afterwards, was not only a tightening of the buckle for 
himself, but was a gracious means of safeguarding his household.” 

One of the grievous conditions in these days is that too many 
CHILDREN are growing up, even in Christian families, with lax 
sentiments on many vital points. 

They have loose views about God’s day and about God’s book, 
and the attendance upon God’s house. 

They start out in life with a “broken buckle.” 


pottle 350 

I sat and wrote the record of the year, 

MARRED with the stains of many an idle day; 

When a stern angel who was standing near, 

Stretched forth his hand and took the page away. 

“Stay, thou dread angel but an hour!” I cried. 

For many things I have as yet to w r rite;” 

But not a word in answer he replied. 

He swiftly sped across the wintry night. 

Then as I bowed my head in silent woe, 

O’er many a BLOT upon the vanished scroll. 

Another angel, whiter than the snow, 

Drew near and spoke a MESSAGE to my soul. 

“Waste not thy time in GRIEF for WORK undone, 

Nor let REGRETS thy passing days engage; 

Thou canst not bring again the year that’s gone, 

But God hath given thee another page.” 

A beautiful parable in poem is here put before us as to God’s 
great kindness toward us when we face the PROBLEM of our 
past FAILURES. 


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Prov. 22. 6.—Train up a child, he will not depart. 
Luke 1. 17.—The hearts of fathers to the children. 
Gal. 5. 9.—A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 
Eph. 5. 15.—See that ye walk to a point. 

Judg. 16. 21.—He did grind in the prisonhouse. 

Neh. 13. 24.—Half in the speech of Ashdod. 


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Heb. 2. 3.—How shall we escape if we neglect? 

Matt. 23. 37.—How often would I have gathered thee. 

Luke 13. 8.—Lord, let it alone this year also. 

Num. 14. 25.—Tomorrow get you into the wilderness. 

2 Chron. 15. 3.—A long time without, but when they turned. 
Psa. 32. 5.—I acknowledge my sin. 


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Pottle 351 

Macaulay has a story of a Hindu, by whom every drop of the 
water of the Ganges was REVERENCED. 

A European gave him a microscope and put a drop of the 
Ganges water upon the lens and had him look. 

He looked and was horrified to find that the sacred Ganges 
swarmed with pollution, and so he broke the MICROSCOPE! 

Quite a few people choose a minister whom they hope will 
speak SMOOTH words and make the way to heaven not plain so 
much as easy. What is that but “Breaking the microscope”? 

The Ganges drop of water did not cease to be IMPURE. 

Nor does a life cease to be WANTING in WEIGHT because it 
is weighed in balances of DECEIT, nor cease to lack if a teacher 
“having itching ears” speaks commendation undeserved. 

The only safe way for any soul is to keep with him the 
microscope of God’s revelation and look often enough into his life 
as to have a very definite and unshakable persuasion of its 
atomic impurity and to know that nothing but the OMNIPOTENT 
processes of God can cleanse his life. 

pottle 352 

DEISM had its great triumph a few years ago in England. 

Two of England’s most brilliant men and eminent legal 
authorities had part in this denial of the SUPERNATURAL. 

They were Gilbert West and Lord Littleton and were put for¬ 
ward to crush the defenders of the word of God. 

They held a conference together and one of them said to the 
other that they would be unable to maintain their position unless 
they disposed of two of the alleged bulwarks of Christianity—the 
alleged RESURRECTION of Jesus from the dead and the alleged 
CONVERSION of Saul of Tarsus. 

Lord Littleton undertook to write a book showing that Saul 
was never converted as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, but 
that his alleged conversion was a myth. 

Gilbert West was to write another book to show that the alleged 
resurrection of Christ from the dead was a myth. 

Then, as they afterward declared, West said to Littleton: “I 
shall have to depend upon you for my facts, for I am somewhat 
RUSTY on the Bible,” to which Littleton replied that he was 
counting upon West, for he, too, was “rusty.” 

They had numerous conferences, and finally West said to 
Littleton: “Have you written your book?” Littleton replied that 
he had, “but,” said he, “West, as I have been studying the EVI¬ 
DENCE and weighing it according to the recognized laws of 
LEGAL evidence, I have become satisfied that Saul of Tarsus 
was CONVERTED and that Christianity is TRUE.” 

“Have you written your book?” said Littleton. “Yes,” said West, 
“but as I studied the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ 
from the DEAD and have WEIGHED it according to the laws of 
evidence, I have become satisfied that Jesus really ROSE from 
the dead, and I have written my book on that side,” and these 
works can be found in our libraries as proof. 


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Lev. 13. 45.—He shall cry, unclean, unclean. 

2 Chron. 18. 7—I hate him, for he prophesied evil. 
Hosea 4. 17.—Joined to idols, let him alone. 

1 Cor. 11, 28.—Let a man examine himself. 


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Gen. 11. 8.—They left off to build the city. 

Psa. 19. 1.— : The heavens declare, the firmament showeth. 
Isa. 35. 8.—The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err. 
Acts 28. 6.—After they saw, they changed their minds. 

Luke 24. 6.—He is not here. He is risen. 


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Rev. Dr. Len G. Broughton, a Baptist Pastor and Evangelist of 
Atlanta, Ga., tells of a minister who called his elders together 
and told them that because there were no souls being SAVED he 
would tender his RESIGNATION of the Pastorate. 

A deacon urged him not to, because the people were being 
EDIFIED. The minister asked, “Edified for what?” and added: 
“Brother, do you believe that through you a soul was ever saved?” 
The frank reply was “No.” From each ELDER present and the 
same reply was received. They all agreed to resign office with 
him if there were no conversions in the immediate future. 

The next day the elder first addressed spoke to his confidential 
clerk. “Bob,” said he, “you are not a Christian and I who am an 
elder of the church which you attend, when you attend anywhere, 
have never spoken to you about your soul—but Bob, I am in 
earnest now, and I want us to KNEEL here and give ourselves 
to Christ, I for CONSECRATION and you for SALVATION.” 

The clerk was touched by God’s spirit through his employer’s 
earnestness and found Christ. That deacon, who had never 
before led a soul to Jesus, was instrumental in the conversion of 
ten other men the same day, and he and his brother elders WON 
thirty men to Christ that week. 

Pottle 354 

From Japan comes the story of exemplified Christianity, told 
by a man who obtained a Bible and read it with much interest. 

“This is a fine thing in THEORY,” said he, “but I wonder how 
it would work in PRACTICE?” One day he was traveling on the 
train and noticed a lady who was a Christian. He said: “If I 
can see anything in her CONDUCT like this Book I will 
BELIEVE it.” 

He reports thus on his observation: “Before the day was over 
I had SEEN so many LITTLE acts of unselfishness on her part 
and so much thoughtfulness for fellow-passengers that I was 
deeply impressed.” The result was that he went to his home 
DETERMINED to make the Bible the GUIDE of his own life. 

Our PUBLIC EXAMPLE may win to Christ or persuade that 
the word of God and the Christian life is nothing but THEORY. 

Pottle 355 

A memorable scene in the life of Queen Victoria was when 
shortly after her CORONATION she visited Edinburgh. 

Scarcely had the twilight darkened into night when from every 
hill surrounding that most magnificent of cities there arose 
simultaneously a crest of fire. That “crest of fire” was the tribute 
of the Scottish highlander to his sovereign. 

These mountaineers had gathered to the heights about the 
city and each had lifted up his hand and in his hand a torch, and 
from Berwick to Fife, and from Fife to Sterling, the great firth 
was illuminated. How the settling of the night of sin would 
vanish if only every loyal subject of Christ were to lift his torch 
in word of WITNESS and in act of life. 


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Rev. 22. 17.—Let him that heareth say come. 
Rev. 3. 16.—So because thou art lukewarm. 
Acts 11. 24.—A good man and much people. 
Luke 19. 10.—To seek and to save. 


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1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart. 

2 Tim. 3. 5.—Having a form of godliness. 

Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience. 
Matt. 7. 16.—By their fruits ye shall know them. 


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Rev. 22. 17.—Let him that heareth say come. 

2 Pet. 1. 19.—A lamp shining in a squalid place. 

Acts 26. 22.—Witnessing both the small and the great. 
Acts 8. 4.—Everywhere preaching the word. 


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When Mr. Moody was in Chicago he used to go and see a man 
on Illinois Street. The man said: “I want to be a Christian, but 
I am AFRAID of my business partner. He would LAUGH at 
me if I came into the church.” Again and again Mr. Moody went 
to see him, and finally he stopped coming to the Tabernacle. 
One day the man’s wife came up and asked Mr. Moody if he 
would not come, as her husband was very ill and might not live. 

Mr. Moody hurried to the home and sitting by the bed preached 
Jesus to the sick man and he PROFESSED to ACCEPT the offer. 

Contrary to expectation he began to get better and Mr. Moody 
said to him: “I am glad the disease has taken a turn for the 
better. As soon as you are able to come out you will come up to 
the Tabernacle and join the church?” The man answered Mr. 
Moody, “I cannot do that. I am AFRAID of my business partner. 
He would laugh at me. Mr. Moody, I am going over in Michigan 
in a few weeks and when I get over there I will make a PUBLIC 
CONFESSION of my acceptance of Christ.” 

Just a week from that day the wife came to Mr. Moody’s house 
and said: “My husband has had a relapse. We have had another 
consultation of physicians and they say it is impossible for him 
to live. Won’t you come down and talk with him?” 

Mr. Moody said: “Did he send for me?” “No, that isn’t the 
worst of it. He doesn’t want you to come. He says he is LOST. 
He has thrown away his last chance, but I can’t let him die this 
way.” Mr. Moody went with her, but the man said to him: “Mr. 
Moody, don’t talk with me now. My show is gone. Last week I 
refused to publicly CONFESS Christ. That was my last chance. 
There is no use talking. It is TOO LATE.” 

Mr. Moody sought to help and encourage him, but he still con¬ 
tinued, “I am LOST. Don’t talk with me.” 

All the afternoon as the man was jinking he kept repeating 
one verse: “The HARVEST is past, the summer is ended, and I 
am not SAVED.” As the sun was sinking and the night settling 
down the man whispered, and they leaned over to hear it; they 
heard the same verse; he died as he spoke the words: “The 
harvest is past and the Summer is ended and I not saved.” 

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Dr. Luther H. Gulick has said: “The best WORK that most of 
us do is not begun in our offices or at our desks, but when we 
wander in the woods or sit with undirected thoughts. 

“From somewhere at such times ideas flash into our minds that 
direct and CONTROL our lives—VISIONS, new ASPIRATIONS 
and desires—the great ideas come largely during QUIET 
and without being sought. We need to do nothing at times when 
we are as well as possible and when our natures are ready for 
their very finest product. The man who never takes time to do 
nothing will hardly do great things—will hardly have epoch- 
making ideas or stimulating IDEALS. 

“We need occasionally to leave our natures undirected that we 
may receive MESSAGES by ‘WIRELESS’ from the UNSEEN.” 


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Heb. 11. 26.—The reproach of Christ, greater riches. 
Heb. 10. 39.—Who draw back unto perdition. 

2 Tim. 2. 12.—If we deny, he also will deny. 

Jer. 8. 20.—The harvest past, the summer ended. 

Psa. 18. 49.—I will give thanks among the nations. 


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1 Thes. 4. 11.—Study to be quiet. 

John 6. 66.—Upon this, many of his disciples went back. 
Mark 6. 31.—Leisure to eat. 

Matt. 6. 6.—And when thou hast shut the door. 

Isa 46. 10.—Be still and know. 


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The total number of STARS visible in the largest TELE¬ 
SCOPES and on the best photographs is about one hundred 
million, says “Nature,” of London. It is found that the number 
of stars per square degree was four thousand, one hundred and 
thirty-seven in the Milky Way, one thousand seven hundred and 
eighty-two near the Milky Way and four hundred and eight in the 
non-galactic regions. Combining these results Mr. Gore obtains 
as the grand total of visible stars the number sixty-four million 
one hundred and eighty-four thousand and seven hundred and 
fifty-seven. 

This would not include the fainter star images lost in repro¬ 
duction of the photographs, nor clusters and nebulae, which would 
likely bring the count up to the one hundred millions. 

When, with these figures that represent so many great worlds, 
we combine the immense distances of heavenly spaces, we begin 
to understand what David speaks about in the nineteenth Psalm. 

Pottle 359 

Near the end of a brilliant football match between our oldest 
university and the Carlisle Indians one of the INDIAN “backs” 
suddeny got away with the ball and was far off down the field, 
with nothing between him and the GOAL posts but one man. 

If the RUNNER succeeded in getting past him it meant 
ATHLETIC glory for the runner and perhaps a VICTORY for 
his small college. The crowd in the stands had risen, gasping in 
their excitement, as crowds do at such moments. Just as the 
runner had almost reached the coveted line that one man, a 
famous sprinter, brought the runner down with a beautiful 
TACKLE. The usual “piling up” of players took place. 

As the New Englander and the Indian lay together the New 
Englander became aware that his right hand was being shaken 
there at the bottom of the heap, while the Indian was muttering 
in admiration, “Good tackle, good tackle.” 

No better illustration of true NOBILITY can be found in 
INDIAN or in any other race. 

Pottle 360 

A little girl and her papa were waiting in the New York Central 
depot—looking up she saw a man in charge of four policemen. 
His arms were SHACKLED and on his leg was an Oregon boot— 
he was a DESPERATE CRIMINAL. 

The CHILD looked at him, noticed his face, dark and sullen, 
and pitied him—she slipped away and fearlessly went up to the 
prisoner and said to him, “Mister, I do not mean to plague you, I 
am sorry for you, and Jesus is SORRY for you, too. 

The prison authorities had given instructions to the guards to 
keep a strict watch of the PRISONER, but found him to be one 
of the least troublesome. Finally one of the guards inquired why 
he should be so very obedient, and the prisoner told of the words 
of KINDNESS and said they had made a NEW man of him. 


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Gen. 1. 16.—The stars also. 

Psa. 19. 1.—The heavens declared, the firmament showeth. 
Isa. 40. 15.—As the small dust of the balance (omnipotence). 
Rom. 1. 20.—His everlasting power and divinity. 


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Matt. 11. 12.—The enthusiastic take it by enthusiasm. 
Eccl. 9. 10.—With thy might. 

Mark 16. 15.—Go ye into all the world. 

Rom. 13. 7.—Honor to whom honor is due. 


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2 Kings 6. 6.—The iron did swim. 

Psa. 65. 9.—The river of God is full of water. 
Isa. 11. 6.—A little child shall lead. 

Ezek. 37. 3.—Can these bones live? 

Matt. 18. 3.—Become as little children. 


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Certain plants that are too weak to SUPPORT themselves by 
their own stocks do so by twining about other plants or objects. 
Sometimes the stem supports itself by spiral turns and sometimes 
by twining tendrils. 

In La Nature (Paris) Mr. Acloque tells us that in every plant 
the GROWING stem describes with its tip movements of 
what is called circumnotation, that is, it points successively 
towards all points of the compass. In the climbing species these 
movements are greatly accentuated and their stems describe 
ellipses that are often very elongated. They seem to be 
SEARCHING for a convenient SUPPORT. 

The bean in its twining accelerates as the plant grows, the 
stem at first barely makes one turn a day, later it makes eight in 
the same time. The vining stem CLINGS more or less closely to 
its support according to the species and the time of day. 

The direction of motion is almost constant, not only in the 
same species, but in the same genus and often in the same 
FAMILY—Sometimes it takes a contrary direction to that of 
the hand of a clock, or “sinistrorsally,” and sometimes in the 
direction of the hands, or “dextrorsally.” The NATURALIST, 
Balm, who made special study of climbing plants, recognizes 
twenty-five genera in which the climbing is toward the left and 
ten in which the climbing is toward the right. Climbing plants 
not near a SUPPORT trail on the ground and do not thrive. 

Nature, as well as revelation, has its lessons. There are 
“books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in 
everything.” The climbing plant is an illustration of human 
life; well for us if we, like it, recognize this law of our develop¬ 
ment and existence. Well for us if we SEARCH about us for a 
SUPPORT that will be sufficient and as ourselves, eternally ex¬ 
istent like the “tip of the growing stem” of these plants. 

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Rev. Mark Guy Pearse relates this story: “I was waiting for a 
train when a man came to me and said: ‘You don’t remember me.’ 
I said: ‘Yes, I do; I remember you when you were a boy. When 
did I see you last?’ He answered, ‘Don’t you remember while 
preaching to three thousand people you saw me, and called me up 
on the platform, and though I was low down you said, ‘Wherever 
you see me come and shake hands with me, because I knew you 
when you were a boy/ 

“‘That was the TURNING point of my life. I don’t know 
what you preached about, but I said if you would shake hands 
with me there like that there is some HOPE for me. That was 
nineteen years ago. I am a PROSPEROUS manufacturer now 
and have a devoted wife and family/ ‘You have forgotten the 
text and the sermon?’ “Yes/ said he.” It was the grasp of the 
HAND SAVED him. 

Whose hand is found in thy hand, my brother, and where; only 
the rich and cultured or the poor, the DISCOURAGED and the 
FALLEN? 


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Gen. 32. 26.—I will not let thee go until. 

Luke 11. 8.—Because of his importunity. 

Luke 10. 37.—Mary who sat at the Lord’s feet. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is faith. (Life-resource.) 
Heb. 10. 36.—Ye have need of hold-on-to-it-iveness. 
Psa. 8. 4.—What is man? 


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Exod. 4. 2.—What is that in thy hand? 

2 Sam. 18. 29.—Is the young man safe? 

Neh. 7. 4—The city, wide, large; the people, few (Consecra 
tion). 

Psa. 40. 2.—Out of a pit of tumult. 

Prov. 11. 30.—He that is wise winneth souls. 

Prov. 27. 17.—So a man shapeth the countenance of a friend. 


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It will be remembered that Captain Phillip, of the “Texas,” 
declared, after the SANTIAGO VICTORY, that the side which 
fired the first shot in a SUNDAY battle has always been defeated. 

The fact that Admiral Cervera deliberately selected the hour 
when the crews of the American ships were at religious service 
to make his dash out of Santiago harbor on that now historic 
Sabbath morning, probably had in the providence of God, more 
to do with his overthrow than the world at large imagines. 

As though to DISTURB the Almighty at his own DEVOTIONS, 
the IMPIOUS Spaniards, fuddled with wine, rushed forth, as it 
proved, horribly to die or finally to be captured. 

And when the sun set that SABBATH its reproachful beams 
slanted across the smoking hulks of the fleet of the PROUD, 
IRREVERENT Spaniard. 

“The stars in their courses fought against SISERA,” and the 
stars in their courses fought against CERVERA. God is not 
mocked. 


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Frederick the Great, who first made Prussia a great power, had 
in his earlier years been SAVED at a time of great peril by one 
of his father’s grenadiers. 

After he himself came to the throne it happened that one of 
his regiments showed signs of MUTINY. Frederick was re¬ 
solved that an example should be made and one entire company 
of the mutinous regiment was ordered out for EXECUTION. 

The son of the grenadier who had saved the life of FREDERICK 
was an officer in the GUILTY regiment and was selected by his 
company to make petition before the king. He went and pleaded 
with all his heart, putting the case in the best light he could, and 
showing the king how many of the INNOCENT he must slay 
with the GUILTY, but the king was inexorable. They must die. 
“Will you refuse this request to my father’s son?” said the 
officer. “Whose son are you?” asked the king. “The son of the 
grenadier who saved your majesty’s life.” “I will PARDON the 
rebels,” said the king, “not for their guilty sakes, but because you 
are the son of the man who saved my life.” 

What man is there of us who dares petition God without the 
argument of the “Only Name”? 

Pottle 365 

A poor seamstress PERSUADED a boy to go to Sunday school. 
The boy, Amos Sutton, was converted. He became a minister 
and missionary to India; through his INFLUENCE the Telugu 
Mission was opened and has won thirty thousand converts. 

A woman gave a TRACT to two actors, and one of them, 
George C. Lorimer, was brought to Christ. He, in turn, led to 
Christ Russell H. Conwell, the great Baptist preacher and lecturer 
of Philadelphia, who has been a great power for God, not only 
in the East but in many sections of our great nation. 


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Exod. 20. 8.—Remember the Sabbath day. 

Isa. 58. 13.—The set-apart of Jehovah, honorable. 

Judg. 5. 20.—The stars fought against Sisera. 

Psa. 95. 6.—Let us kneel before Jehovah (Reverence). 
Dan. 4. 17.—That the living may know. 

Heb. 10. 25.—Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves. 


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Exod. 12. 14.—A day for memorial. 

Exod. 30. 12.—Every man, a ransom, rich and poor. 
1 Sam. 15. 23.—Rebellion as the sin of witchcraft. 
Matt. 20. 28.—To give his life a ransom. 

John 15. 14.—My friends if ye do. 

Rom. 6. 23.—Wages is death, the gift is life. 


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Prov. 25. 11.—A word fitly spoken is apples of gold. 
Eccl. 12. 1.—To remember thy creator in youth. 
Song 2. 15.—The little foxes that spoil. 

Isa. 27. 6.—Filled the face of the world with fruit. 
Isa. 55. 13.—Instead of the thorn, the fir tree. 

John 21. 15.—Feed my lambs. 


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The great Earl of Shaftesbury served Christ by uplifting the 
POOR of London. 

Where the Holborn is flung over another street in the neigh¬ 
borhood of Saint Paul’s cathedral the viaduct is supported on 
lofty arches, and at night in those roomy, dry recesses are 
gathered the RIFF-RAFF of that part of the great metropolis— 
thieves, those flying from justice, and homeless children. 

When the great clock of Saint Paul’s had boomed the stroke of 
midnight and the arches were filled with these poor people there 
approached during his lifetime a tall, thin gentleman with a 
lantern and one or two assistants, who would go from arch to 
arch and group to group and gather by morning thirty or forty 
hungry, ragged CHILDREN into a room pleasantly lighted, and 
there the Earl of Shaftesbury would feed and clothe them, and 
having fed and CLOTHED them, would tell them of the Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ. And so he spent his nights, robbing him¬ 
self of his SLEEP. His friends remonstrated, but he answered: 
“My heart is breaking with AGONY for my poor boys.” 

The bluest blood of British ARISTOCRACY flowed in his veins 
and his palace home at the West End was left for these recesses 
of Holborn Viaduct. 

And when the COSTERMONGERS would not receive his help 
because they said he was too PROUD and his blood was too blue, 
the Earl of Shaftesbury brought himself down to them—he be¬ 
came a costermonger himself, with cart and donkey and with his 
crest emblazoned on the harness, and when they SAW that they 
said: “Lord Shaftesbury stands with us; he shall HELP us.” 

What wonder that at his funeral a multitude were weeping? 

Man did you ever think of the costermonger Christ? 


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Hanging on a wall in the office of George W. Martin, the general 
agent of the Rock Island-’Frisco lines, is a card on which is 
printed: “Write Your Letter While ANGRY if you MUST. But 
Don’t Mail it Until the Next Day.” 

“That card,” said Mr. Martin to some friends, “offers mighty 
good advice. Every man now and then, I believe, feels that he 
must write a letter making trouble about something. When that 
feeling comes over one he must get rid of it. One way to do that 
is to write the letter, and get the meanness out of the system. 

“I remember a young fellow who one time wrote a mean letter 
to his father. He and I worked in the same office. I advised him 
not to send it, but he was ANGRY. He sealed it and asked me to 
mail it for him, and I simply dropped it into my pocket until the 
next day. The next morning he looked worried. ‘George,’ said 
he, ‘I wish I had never written that letter to the old gentleman. 
It will break his heart. I’d give $50 to get it back.’ I pitched it 
out to him, and the young fellow actually wanted to pay me the 
$50 for not mailing the letter.” 


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Mark 10. 13.—They were bringing unto him. 

Phil. 2. 7.—Counted it not a prize. 

2 Pet. 1. 19.—A lamp that shineth in a squalid place. 

3 John 1. 9.—Diotrephes, who loveth the preeminence. 
Matt. 25. 39.—Verily I say, ye did it unto me. 

Acts 28. 6.—After they looked they changed their minds. 


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Prov. 15. 1.—A soft answer turneth away wrath. 
James 1. 26.—Bridleth-not-his-tongue religion. 
James 3. 8.—The tongue no man can tame. 

Jonah 4. 4.—Doest thou well to be angry? 

Prov. 27. 4.—Anger is outrageous. 

Gen. 4. 6.—Why is thy countenance fallen? 


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Professor Agassiz leaves this testimony on record: “I will 
frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific inves¬ 
tigations CONVINCE me that a BELIEF in God—a God who is 
behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowl¬ 
edge—adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to 
penetrate into the regions of the unknown. 

Of myself I may say that I never make the preparations for 
penetrating into some small province of NATURE hitherto un¬ 
discovered without breathing a PRAYER to the Being who hides 
his SECRETS from me only to allure me graciously on to the 
unfolding of them. 


pottle 369 

There is a very famous VINE at Hampton Court, London, 
which has at times borne a thousand or more bunches of grapes, 
and the SECRET is that the vine sends its roots hundreds of 
yards through the ground to the Thames, where it gets moisture 
and nourishment. 

Another VINE to which great interest has been attached is 
situated at Saint Gabriel’s Mission, California, the largest and 
oldest vine in the United States. It is a hundred and five years 
of age. The stock is five feet six inches in circumference, nearly 
two feet in diameter, and it is said to have borne two tons of 
GRAPES in one season. The roots are said to go down three 
hundred feet or more to feed from a subterranean stream. 

The tree or vine that is planted by the rivers of water will 
bring forth its fruit in its season. The way to have a rich 
fruitage and to carry about a beautiful life is to abide in him. 

Pottle 370 

James Tyson, who left a fortune of $25,000,000, was the richest 
man in Australia. He was an Australian by birth and began 
life in POVERTY, made all his money in buying and selling 
cattle and sheep, devoting his whole lifetime to that one business. 

He knew nothing about spending money and was as indifferent 
to the LUXURIES of life as Russell Sage, of New York. 

He wore cheap, ready made clothes, lived frugally, avoided 
society, and remained unmarried. Tyson’s fun was, as he called 
it, “Fighting the desert.” He once said: “The money is nothing. 
It is the little game that is the fun.” Being asked what the 
little game was, he answered: “FIGHTING the DESERT; that 
has been my WORK. I’ve been fighting the desert all my life, 
and I have won. I have put water where there was no water, and 
beef where there was no beef. I have put fences where there 
were no fences and roads where there were no roads. Nothing 
can UNDO what I have done and millions will be HAPPIER for 
it after I am long dead and forgotten.” 

Let us be impressed with the fact he who is fighting the desert 
that is Inside of his own life and the DESERT that lies inside 
the lives of others, is in a splendid battle. 


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Josh. 9. 14.—They asked not counsel of the Lord. 

1 Chron. 4. 9.—Jabez more honorable than brothers. 
Psa. 121. 1.—I will lift up mine eyes. 

Matt. 6. 6.—When thou hast shut thy door. 

1 Chron. 13. 3.—We enquired not in the days of Saul. 


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Heb. 6. 1.—Let us press on unto full growth. 

2 Cor. 9. 8.—God is able to make all grace abound 
John 10. 10.—That they might have it abundantly. 
Isa. 27. 6.—Fill the face of the world with fruit. 
John 15. 5.—I am the vine, ye are the branches. 


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Eph. 6. 12.—Against principalities and powers. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 
Isa. 55. 13.—Instead of the thorn, the fir tree. 

Josh. 13. 1.—Much land to be possessed. 

Matt. 11. 12.—The enthusiastic take it by enthusiasm. 
John 15. 16.—And that your fruit should abide. 


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An English gentleman, proud of his fine estate, called to him 
his trusted steward, saying: “Morgan, I wish you would take my 
guests around the place this morning. I would do so myself but 
I have a heap of letters to answer this morning.” 

The guests were taken to the orchid house and to the grapery 
and through the fine gardens, and then to the stables to see the 
thoroughbred horses. One of the guests noticed the gilded arrow 
WEATHERVANE shining in the sunlight and pointing to the 
south: “That is a fine weathercock,” he said. 

“Aye,” answered the steward, “and this is a curious weather¬ 
cock. The master is mighty FOND of SCRIPTURE. 

“The text he has around the weathercock is ‘God is Love,’ for 
he says ‘I mean that whichever way the wind blows, God is love, 
and it is not for Christians to judge when the wind is at its 
BEST.’ ” Some months after, death and affliction came to this 
home, the friend called to offer consolation and found Mr. Brown 
bowed down but not overwhelmed, for he said: “The weathercock 
teaches me the truth. I put it on in my PROSPERITY, when the 
desire of my heart was beside me. I could say then, ‘God is 
LOVE’ with a THANKFUL heart. He is still love, though his 
east wind is blowing.” 


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A sailor in Gloucester, Mass., had been WOUNDED in a 
WRECK and was brought ashore. The fever was great and he 
was dying. His comrades gathered around him in a little fishing- 
house and the physician said: “He won’t live long.” 

The SAILOR was out of his mind until near the close, but a 
few minutes before his death he looked around, called one 
comrade after another and bade them “good-by,” and then sank 
off into a sleep. It was time for medicine again, one of the 
sailors shook him and said: “Mate, how are you now?” and he 
looked up into the eyes of his friend and said: “My anchor 
holds,” and it was the last thing he said. 

Russell H. Conwell, who tells this story, says one of his friends 
was called to take charge of that FUNERAL service and that a 
wonderful impression was created by that last TESTIMONY. 

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In 1845 the Jefferson Furnace Company was incorporated, and 
one of the stipulations was that the furnace was not to be run 
on the SABBATH, and that no WORK pertaining to it should 
be done on the Lord’s day. 

A Mr. Hughes, afterward of the Ohio Legislature, took a 
prominent part in the company, was chosen secretary and 
treasurer and held the position for twenty-seven years, and in 
accordance with the stipulation the Jefferson furnace has never 
been run on the Sabbath, and is said to be the most SUCCESSFUL 
and most PROFITABLE in the state of Ohio. 

REVERENCE for the laws of heaven pays in BUSINESS. 


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1 John 4. 8.—God is Love. 

Rom. 8. 28.—All things work together for good. 

Gen. 42. 36.—All these things are against me. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and is profitable. 
1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou (as) an engraver in faith. 

Luke 12. 7.—More valuable than many sparrows. 


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Heb. 6. 19.—An anchor of the soul. 

Heb. 2. 1.—Lest we drift by them. 

Amos 4. 12.—Prepare to meet thy God. 

Psa.'23. 4.—Through the valley of the shadow. 


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Exod. 20. 8.—Remember the Sabbath day. 

Exod. 12. 14.—This day for a memorial. 

Heb. 10. 25.—Forsaking the assembling of yourselves together. 
Isa. 58. 13.—The set-apart of Jehovah, honorable. 


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Mr. Frith, an English painter, in his painting, “The Road to 
Ruin,” gives a true portraiture of life and preaches a telling 
SERMON. 

The first scene is the room of an undergraduate at Oxford. A 
number of YOUNG men are gambling at cards. One is blowing 
out the candles as dawn is breaking. Empty bottles are on the 
floor. One bright, open face is seen among the number. 

The second painting is “The Lawn at Ascot,” and here the 
same FACE is surrounded by the VULTURES of the racecourse. 

The third canvas represents the town mansion of this young 
man, presumably some years later, and the bailiffs are in pos¬ 
session of the house, which is about to be sold to PAY his DEBTS. 

The fourth scene is a humble “Pension” in a French town, 
where the landlady is presenting a long bill which she requests 
to be paid at once. The RUINED man has been trying to make 
a living in literature and failed. 

The last painting is another scene again in London. It is in a 
back GARRET. The moon’s rays are streaming into the 
MISERABLE room, touching with their light the broken TOYS 
of children and some threadbare female apparel, but only a man 
is seen—he is locking the door. On the table is seen a pistol, a 
bullet, and some powder that make certain suggestion as to the 
end of this life that had its wrong BEGINNINGS. 

pottle 375 

Once in a shop a workman wrought, 

With languid hand and LISTLESS thought, 

When through the open window’s space, 

Behold, a camel thrust his face. 

“My nose is cold!” he MEEKLY cried, 

“Oh, let me warm it by thy side!” 

Since no denial word was said, 

In came the nose, in came the head— 

As sure as sermon follows text— 

The long and scraggy neck came next; 

And then, as falls the threatening STORM, 

In leaped the whole ungainly form. 

Aghast the owner gazed around, 

And on the rude INVADER frowned. 

Convinced, as closer still it pressed, 

There was no room for such a GUEST; 

Yet, more astonished, heard it say; 

“If thou are troubled, go thy way, 

For in this place I choose to stay.” 

Oh, YOUTHFUL hearts to gladness born, 

Treat not this Arab lore with scorn! 

To evil HABIT’S earliest wile 

Lend neither ear, nor glance, nor smile. 

CHOKE the dark fountain e’er it flows, 

Nor e’er ADMIT the camel’s nose. 


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Prov. 23. 34.—Upon the top of the mast. 

Rom. 6. 23.—Evil associations corrupt morals. 
Num. 32. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you. 
Prov. 4. 15.—Avoid it, pass not by it. 

Eccl. 12. 1.—Remember thy creator in youth. 
Eph. 5. 16.—Buying up the opportunity. 

Psa. 1. 1.—Standeth not in the way of sinners. 


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Gen. 3. 13.—The serpent beguiled me. 

Josh. 9. 4.—They did work wilily. 

Judg. 2. 3.—As thorns in your sides. 

Song 2. 15.—The little foxes that spoil the vines. 
Jonah 2. 1.—Prayed out of the fish’s belly. 

Luke 4. 16.—As his custom was. 

2 Cor. 11. 14.—Satan as an angel of light. 


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In 1899 a proposition was before Congress to PROHIBIT the 
navigation of the lower Mississippi river by vessels that have no 
means of propulsion, and therefore cannot CONTROL themselves. 

They DRIFT at the mercy of the current, in constant DANGER 
of collision with the steamboats, entailing great LOSS of 
property and life. 

Especially does this apply to drifting coal barges that come in 
from northern cities, out of which the coal is sold and the barges 
turned loose. They are without control of any kind. They carry 
no LIGHTS, are in constant peril and a peril to others. 

We have laws of this kind and there are necessities for such 
laws applying to the MORAL hulks still more DANGEROUS that 
drift about in the stream of life—men and women who were, 
perhaps, loaded with a rich cargo and carrying LIGHTS for 
themselves and others, but who, by NEGLECT or by their sins, 
have LOST their spiritual enginery, and now without cargo or 
lights, they drift on toward an ocean of eternal waste. 

Such lives, unrestrained and left to drift, are later the cause 
of wrecking many a cargo that has set out with crew and pilot, 
with the best of chances for a safe harbor! 

Pottle 377 

When a king asked Ole Bull, the Norwegian, the virtuoso of 
the VIOLIN, where he caught the RAPTUROUS tones which he 
brought out of his instrument, the artist replied: “I caught them, 
your majesty, from the mountains of Norway.” 

A great deal of the world’s highest GENIUS has been born in 
close contact with NATURE. There is something in the air, in 
the inspiration of the waterfalls, in the mountains and the forests, 
and even in the lesser subjects of nature’s penmanship that wakes 
the dormant of human character to a PROLIFIC effort. 

GENIUS is for the most part from the open air. 

And a man in woodland, or in garden, on in mountain, or by 
a waterfall, stands close to God and catches a VISION that will 
show itself in the after years. 

Pottle 378 

When HERCULES came to the place where the helpless virgin 
lay BOUND upon the rock and the DRAGON was coming to 
DEVOUR her, her parents and all were frantic with TEARS. 

But Hercules cried: “This is not time for TEARS; this hour 
is for RESCUE,” and he slew the dragon and SAVED the 
MAIDEN. 

So when Jesus looked in with pity on a sinning race it was not 
TEARS alone, but rescue at the price of Gethsemane, of substi¬ 
tution that meant sacrifice, and to slay the dragon he himself 
was slain. 

If Jesus wept and gave his life for your brother and for you, 
what is your duty toward the one who is bound and in danger of 
the devouring dragon? 


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Col. 3. 2.—Set your mind on the things above. 
Eph. 5. 15.—See that ye walk to a point. 

Eccl. 9. 18.—One sinner destroyeth much good. 
1 Sam. 3. 13.—He restrained them not. 

Rom. 14. 7.—None of us liveth to himself. 


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Rom. 1. 20.—By things that do appear. 

1 Kings 19. 19.—Plowman Elisha with twelve yoke. 
Psa. 19. 1.—The heavens declare the glory of God. 

Isa. 19. 12.—After the lire a sound of gentle stillness. 


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1 Pet. 5. 8.—Whom he may devour. 

Heb. 9. 22.—Without blood no remission. 

John 11. 35.—Jesus shed tears (did not wail). 

Gen. 4. 9.—Am I my brother’s keeper? 

Gal. 6. 2.—Bear ye one another’s burdens. 

1 John 4. 20.—He who loveth God love his brother. 


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Pottle 379 

A pastor in a certain church in Manchester, England, tells of a 
woman who had one BESETTING sin which handicapped her 
life. Said he: “She used to bring request after request, ‘Please 
pray for my husband.’ Well, we got him along, and when we 
got him nearly in that WIFE would upset the whole thing. 

“The one thing that was her TROUBLE was her TEMPER. 

“And when that got started everybody in the house knew 
about it and her husband used to say: ‘Well, Mary, if that is 
religion, I don’t want it.’ Her husband would FORGIVE her, for 
she would be sorry afterward, but all the same it DITCHED him. 

“The request came and the pastor told her that the FAULT 
was hers, and she must OVERCOME her temper; that the Lord 
could give her grace to CONTROL it. 

“And so in her shame and despair she took the matter to the 
Lord, and he gave her the VICTORY. 

“The time for spring cleaning came. She had just gotten a 
new lamp hung up in the hall and a new carpet, and John came 
home, carrying something on his shoulder. 

“John didn’t know about the lamp; that was to be a surprise; 
he came in and down came the lamp; there was a clattering and 
a breaking up of things, and he waited for another row. 

“Presently a QUIET woman looked over the stairs and down at 
him, and said: ‘Never mind, husband, it’s all right; we can get 
another lamp.’ And he said: ‘Mary, what’s the matter?’ ‘Oh, my 
dear,’ she said, ‘I have trusted Jesus to cure me of my temper.’ 

“ ‘Well,’ said John, ‘if he has cured you, come right down and 
pray for me, for that is what I want. If there is enough in 
religion to cure your temper I want the same religion,’ and, said 
the pastor, John was converted that same day.” 

Pottle 380 

Statisticians report that more than one half of recent railroad 
ACCIDENTS are due to DEFECTIVE rails. 

A device known as “The ELECTRIC EYE” has been applied 
and is expected to meet the necessity. 

An officer of one of our most important roads says: “The 
PERFECT rail has not yet been obtained, and manufacturers 
confess it is impossible, that is, a thousand rails may be perfect, 
the next one may have some DEFECT which cannot be detected. 

“No human EYE can see the defect. The first crack may not 
be broader than a HAIR and HIDDEN beneath the top of the rail. 

“Many trains may go over it without making it perceptibly 
bigger. One train may then enlarge it and another rip the two 
pieces apart.” 

“The electric eye” consists of a fine electric wire running 
along the rails and connected with the SIGNAL towers. This is 
so fixed as to register a flaw the moment it appears. 

Like the defective rail, with its invisible flaw, like this is life, 
with its weaknesses and habits of sin—for a time all but im¬ 
perceptible, then a geometrical increase, then a wreck, a ditched 
life. 


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James 1. 26.—Bridleth-not-his-tongue religion. 
James 1. 19.—Swift to hear, slow to speak. 

Heb. 12. 2.—Every weight and sin—by looking. 
Song 2. 15.—The little foxes that spoil the vines. 
James 3. 8.—The tongue no man can tame. 

Prov. 15. 1.—A soft answer turneth away wrath. 
Eccl. 3. 7.—A time to keep silence. 


Pottle 380 

Phil. 3. 15.—If in anything, otherwise minded. 
Eph. 5. 15.—See that you walk to a point. 

Gal. 5. 7.—Who ditched you? 

1 Cor. 11. 28.—Let a man examine himself. 

1 Cor. 2. 14.—They are spiritually discerned. 


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Hindu MYTHOLOGY has a strange story, typical of the 
ATONEMENT. The story is of a DOVE pursued by a hawk 
until, in desperation, it flung itself into the bosom of Vishnu, one 
of their deities. But the hawk demanded SATISFACTION, de¬ 
claring that the dove was her lawful prey, that Vishnu must not 
only be MERCIFUL to the dove but be JUST to its claims. 

Then Vishnu, holding the trembling dove in her bosom, bared 
her own breast and bade the hawk devour of her own living flesh 
as much as would compensate for the dove. 

This story from mythology gives a glimpse of the COST to the 
Son of God for the safety of man, pursued and certain to be slain: 
not a bit of flesh from his breast, but the print of lash and thorn 
and nail and spear, the giving up of life itself. 

pottle 382 

Dr. McCook has said: “I BELIEVE in the Bible from beginning 
to end, and believe in a word of God that has no MISTAKES.” 

For a hundred years natural SCIENCE declared that Solomon 
made a mistake about ANTS being HARVESTERS, and Smith’s 
Bible Dictionary apologizes for this MISTAKE in a learned way. 

But a minister went down into Texas and Colorado, camped out 
among the ants, and as a result of his investigations published a 
book showing that SOLOMON four thousand years ago was right. 

One by one we find the FLAWS are in the finite CRITICS. 

pottle 383 

Charles H. Spurgeon once went from London into the country 
to preach, coming back he found he had lost his ticket. 

The only other occupant of the compartment noticed him 
fumbling in his pockets and said: “I hope you have not lost 
anything, sir.” Mr. Spurgeon told him that his ticket was 
missing, and that by remarkable COINCIDENCE he had neither 
watch nor money with him. “But,” added he, “I am not at all 
TROUBLED, for I have been on my Master’s business and I have 
had so many interpositions of Divine PROVIDENCE in SMALL 
matters, as well as in great ones, that I feel as if whatever hap¬ 
pens to me, I am bound to fall on my feet, like the man on the 
Manxpenny.” The ticket collector came into the compartment, 
touched his hat to Mr. Spurgeon’s companion, who simply said: 
“All right, William!” and the man saluted and retired. 

“It’s very strange,” said Mr. Spurgeon, “that the collector did 
not ask for my ticket.” “No, Mr. Spurgeon,” he replied, “it’s 
only another illustration of what you told me about the PROVI¬ 
DENCE of God watching over you, even in LITTLE things. 

“I am the General Manager. No doubt it was divinely AR¬ 
RANGED that I should happen to be your COMPANION Just 
when I could be of service to you.” 

The only way we shall ever get through the gate into the city 
is by having as our COMPANION the Son of God, Jesus, the 
general manager of that line. 


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Mark 15. 25.—And they crucified him. 

Mark 15. 31.—He saved others, himself he cannot save. 
Num. 35. 11.—Cities of refuge (Miklot cities). 

Deut. 33. 12.—Dwell in safety, between his shoulders. 
Isa. 53. 5.—And with his stripes we are healed. 

Eccl. 12. 14.—Every work into judgment, every secret. 
Num. 29. 11.—The sin-offering of atonement. 


bottle 382 

Psa. 37. 3.—Trust, do good, so dwell and be fed. 

John 17. 17.—Thy word is truth. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and is profitable. 
1 John 2. 17.—But the word of God abideth forever. 

Rev. 22. 18.—If any man add, if any take away. 


Pottle 383 

Gen. 50. 20.—But God meant it unto good. 

1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou (as) an engraver in faith. 

Heb. 11. 1—Faith, assurance of (the attainment of) the hoped- 
for. 

1 Pet. 5. 7.—All your anxiety on him. 

Rom. 8. 28.—All things work together for good. 

Heb. 6. 1.—Press on unto full growth. 


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pottle 384 

In Sherman’s campaign it became necessary in his opinion to 
change commanders. O. O. Howard was PROMOTED to lead a 
division which had been under the command of another general. 

Howard went through the campaign at the head of the division 
and on to Washington to take part in the REVIEW. 

The night before the Veterans were to march down Pennsyl¬ 
vania Avenue General Sherman sent for General Howard and 
said to him: “Howard, the politicians and the friends of the man 
whom you succeeded are bound that he shall ride at the head of 
his old corps, and I want you to help me out.” 

“But it is my command,” said Howard, “and I am ENTITLED 
to ride at its head.” 

“Of course you are,” said Sherman. “You led them through 
Georgia and the Carolinas, but, Howard, you are a CHRISTIAN.” 

“What do you mean?” replied Howard. “I mean that you can 
stand the DISAPPOINTMENT. You are a Christian.” 

“Putting it on that ground there is but one answer. Let him 
ride at the head of the Corps.” “Yes, let hinphave that HONOR.” 
added Sherman, “but, Howard, you will report to me at nine 
o’clock tomorrow morning.” 

The next morning Howard reported and was informed that he 
was to ride by the side of General Sherman at the head of the 
whole army. He protested, but in vain. Sherman added, gently 
but authoritatively: “Y6u are under my orders.” 

As a Christian he had YIELDED to another that which was by 
right his own, only to be given a more HONORABLE place. 

Who shall say that if we could only see the innermost of the 
divine providence that it is not always so? 

Pottle 385 

In Bavaria, ROYALTY is forced by a CUSTOM centuries old to 
a service of humility. The prince regent on Holy Thursday must 
WASH the feet of twelve beggars in presence of the multitude. 

This ceremony has been performed each year by some member 
of the reigning family of Bavaria since the twelfth century. 

The ceremony takes place in the palace grounds. The twelve 
oldest and poorest men in Bavaria are selected weeks in advance. 
Costumed in long gowns, representative of the apostles, they are 
arranged in a semicircle, and near by stand a group of monks. 

The feet of the twelve mendicants are bared and beginning with 
the oldest and neediest the PRINCE, upon his knees, bathes the 
extended foot in holy water from a .silver bowl. He dries the 
feet on a towel of finest linen. 

It is the custom of the prince as he bathes the feet of each man 
to address some kindly words of advice and then place about his 
neck a slender chain, holding a smali metal box, containing forty 
marks—about ten dollars—sufficient to support the beneficiary in 
unusual magnificence for a couple of months. 

The HABIT of HUMILITY once a year is so much, but it will 
take, on the part of Bavarian royalty, or on our part, the addition 
of other 364 days to fill in the EXAMPLE of the Christ. 


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Mark 10. 30.—A hundredfold now in this time. 

Prov. 15. 33.—Before honor goeth humility. 

Prov. 16. 32.—He that ruleth his own spirit. 

John 13. 15.—I have given you an example. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 

Gal. 5. 23.—The fruit is meekness (Life-relinquishment). 
Phil. 3. 7.—These I counted loss for Christ. 



3 John 1. 9.—Diotrephes, who loveth the preeminence. 

1 John 2. 16.—The pride of life not of the Father. 

2 Tim. 3. 5.—Having a form of Godliness. 

Gal. 5. 23.—The fruit is meekness (Life-relinquishment). 
John 13. 15.—I have given you an example. 


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Pottle 386 

A few years ago The Literary Digest, published by Funk & 
Wagnalls, of New York city, gave an account of the launching of 
two whale-boats to CAPTURE a WHALE. 

They succeeded, after a short chase, in harpooning their victim, 
inflicting what proved to be a deadly wound. 

They came near enough so that one of the boats was struck and 
shattered. All the men were, of course, thrown into the sea, but 
all save two were RESCUED by the other boat. 

Of these two the dead body of one was recovered. 

On opening the captured WHALE the next day the remaining 
man—James Bartley—was found inside the whale and still alive, 
but unconscious. He, however, returned to consciousness and 
recovered, and himself is responsible for this story. 

He had been in the whale’s stomach twenty-four hours after the 
cutting began and it was nearly twenty-four hours before that 
time when he was thrown into the sea, and so was for nearly 
forty-eight hours in the belly of the whale. Nor is this the only 
incident that is reported from the whale fisheries of the North. 

Pottle 387 

A traveler from the Philippine Islands tells of the mysterious 
“Death Valley,” in the island of Mindanao. 

When crossing the mountains one sees a mist heavier than 
most dense fogs, and it has never been known to clear away. 

As the traveler proceeded with his comrades the air became 
heavy and foul and apparently filled with POISONOUS gases. 

He called a halt and decided to return to the mountain tops. 

In his inquiry he was informed by the natives that the nuggets 
of gold he had previously been shown had been found at the edge 
of this valley of death. 

The man who in this life finds very much GOLD may find it at 
the expense of safety and near to the “Death Valley,” and we 
have witness certain that many have gone so near to these 
atmospheric poisons of wealth’s “death valley” as to LOSE that 
inner life which belongs to the IMAGE of God. 

Pottle 388 

A suburban merchant in New York City recently died, leaving 
this strange provision in his will: 

His wife, on settling up his estate, should buy a burial lot 
twenty feet square in a well-known CEMETERY and erect 
thereon a MONUMENT or mausoleum, to cost not less than 
$25,000. If the wife failed to do this the property went to a 
neighbor, who was to carry out the plans for the monument. 

The wife carried out the injunctions of the will. It took all the 
personalty and a large part of the realty to build the monument. 
This is the sort of BID some men make for FAME. 

The poorest place in the world is a graveyard when it comes to 
the scroll of fame. A man who, when he dies, only lives on 
monuments or mausoleums has lived in vain. 


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Jonah 2. 1.—Prayed out of the fish’s belly. 

John 17. 17.—Thy word is truth. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and profitable. 
1 Cor. 1. 20.—Where is the joint-seeker? 

Rev. 22. 18.—If any man add, if any man take away. 



Exod. 20. 17.—Thou Shalt not covet. 

Mark 8. 36.—What profit if a man gain, and lose? 
1 Tim. 6. 9.—They that will be rich. 

Heb. 11. 26.—The reproach of Christ greater riches. 


Pottle 388 


•Prov. 15. 33.—Before honor goeth humility. 
Eccl. 5. 15.—Naked shall he go again. 

Hosea 4. 17.—Joined to idols, let him alone. 
1 Tim. 6. 9.—They that will be rich. 

Psa. 19. 10.—More to be desired than gold. 
Prov. 11. 1.—Cast thy bread upon the waters. 


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Pottle 389 

“Autumn Leaves,” by D. T. McDougal, gives us some very in¬ 
teresting facts about the tree casting its leaf 

He says, in part: “The casting of the LEAF is not a sudden and 
QUICK response to any single change in ENVIRONMENT con¬ 
ditions, but is brought about by a complex interplay of processes 
begun days or weeks before any EXTERNAL CHANGES are to 
be SEEN. The leaf is rich in two classes of substances—the one 
no further benefit to it; the other of the highest possible useful¬ 
ness to the plant. The former USELESS product remains in the 
leaf and drops with it to the ground after disintegration is taken 
up through root hairs to become once more USEFUL in the new 
leaves of another year. The second class of substances pass into 
the plant body by a complex process. 

The first change that takes place is the breaking down of the 
chlorophyll, resulting in the formation of substances, one of 
which is cyanophyll (blue), which absorbs the sun’s rays in the 
same general manner as chlorophyll. 

In addition, the outer layers of cells of the leaf contain other 
pigments, some of which have been masked by the chlorophyll 
and others which are formed as decomposition products. 

“From the wild riot of tints shown by a clump of trees or 
shrubs the erroneous impression might be gained that the colors 
are ACCIDENTAL. This is far from the case, however. 

“The birches are a golden yellow; oaks pass through yellow 
orange to reddish brown; the red maple becomes a dark red; the 
tulip tree a light yellow; hawthorn and poison oak become 
violet; the sumacs and vines take on a flaming scarlet. 

“These colors exhibit some variation in accord with the 
character of the SOIL on which the plant stands.” 

There are lessons here from God’s great autumn painting—as 
there are substances MASKED by the chlorophyll, so there is a 
HIDDEN life; as there is a keynote of color, declaring a law of 
PURPOSE, so in life the purposeless is not of God, and the “I 
didn’t think” is sin; as there is a variation of color with a varia¬ 
tion of soil, so life ENVIRONMENT is to be much accounted of. 

pottle 390 

Herbert SPENCER once had a friend who was a Christian. 

For five years they enjoyed one another’s society, and then 
Spencer received a letter in which the ASSOCIATION was 
broken off. The thought of the letter was as follows: 

“Feeling, as I do, so very painfully, that my FAITH is so little 
the heart-felt faith which should actuate the true Christian, the 
DANGER which might accrue from my ASSOCIATION with one 
so talented as yourself and so able to make the worst appear the 
best REASON, I must, at however great a sacrifice (and believe 
me, I feel it to be a great one), cancel the PLEASURE I have in 
your association, and request that henceforth we meet no more, 
or meet as strangers.” 

The action of this man, though unusual, commends his WIS¬ 
DOM and emphasizes anew the WARNINGS of the Word of God. 


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2 Sam. 6. 3.—The ark of God upon a new cart. 

2 Kings 2. 15.—The spirit of Elijah on Elisha. 

Psa. 137. 2.—We hanged our harps upon the willows. 
Ezek. 18. 2.—The children’s teeth are set on edge. 

Luke 1. 17.—Hearts of a father to the children. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing unto Him. 
1 Kings 20. 40.—Busy here and there, he was gone. 

1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart. 


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Gen. 3. 13.—The serpent beguiled me. 

Judg. 2. 3.—As thorns in your sides. 

Neh. 13. 24.—Half in the speech of Ashdod. 

1 Cor. 11. 28.—Let a man examine himself. 

Gal. 5. 7.—Ye did run well, who ditched you? 

Prov. 27. 17.—A man shapeth the countenance of his friend. 


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Pottle 391 

In natural philosophy there is written as to LIGHT a law that 
teaches the POWER of INFLUENCE. 

We read that light increases or diminishes, not in proportion 
to the DISTANCE, but in proportion to the SQUARE of the dis¬ 
tance, so that we receive only one hundredth part the light from 
jet or lamp when it is one hundred feet distant as when only 
ten feet away, and vice versa; a hundred times as much light ten 
feet away as when a hundred feet away. 

We have only to look into a little bit of our own lives to 
demonstrate that likely the light-law of natural philosophy is 
equally applicable in life. 

And so we can make a calculation as to what of gloom or what 
of light, what of night, or what of day—what of life or what of 
death—what of ugliness or what of beauty—what of hell or 
what of Heaven we have before us and will have with us, and 
will have in us. 

Square the distances, man, square the distances and TREMBLE 
lest you stand in life too near the diabolical. 

Pottle 392 

A prince once came from India when it was simmering in 
REBELLION to pick up ideas and go back and set the jungle on 
fire. He came to London, entered one of the cabs and said to the 
coachman: “Drive me to the country!” 

The coachman drove through street after street, thoroughfare 
after thoroughfare, past houses and parks, the sun reached the 
zenith and began to set; still streets and streets. 

“Are we near the country, yet?” and the answer: “No, you will 
need to drive till midnight—yes, till tomorrow morning, before 
you see the fields.” As night fell the lights of the mighty world’s 
capital were lit and the prince said: “Drive back.” 

From that day there was no more HUMBLE servant of the 
queen than that prince. 

Oh, how REVERENCE and PIUMILITY increase when we 
begin to explore the resources of our God. 

Pottle 393 

Near Stonehaven, a Norwegian vessel was caught in the 
STORM and the coast GUARD vessel came out and did their best, 
but it did not SAVE the men, and all that night they struggled in 
the surging ocean, clinging to the rigging with but a step between 
them and death. 

They watched the morning dawn, and after some hours of 
effort by the coast guard the poor Norwegians, wet, worn, drip¬ 
ping, were brought off the vessel and when they got ashore they 
did what but few would do in like circumstances. 

They KNELT down, every one of them, and before they thanked 
the coast-guard men, with clasped hands and uplifted eyes, they 
THANKED God for their deliverance. 

From what a sea and surf and night of sin doth God SAVE 
us, and what the measure of our GRATITUDE. 


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Pottle 39 1 

Matt. 5. 14.—Ye are the light of the world. 

1 Cor. 15. 33.—Evil associations corrupt morals. 

Gal. 5. 9.—A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 

Judg. 2. 3.—As thorns in your sides. 

2 Kings 2. 15.—The spirit of Elijah on Elisha. 

Prov. 27, 17.—So a man shapeth the countenance of a friend. 


Pottle 392 

2 Sam. 6. 9.—How can the ark of Jehovah come to me? 
Job 42. 5.—Now mine eye seeth thee, I abhor myself. 
Psa. 95. 6.—Let us kneel before Jehovah, our maker. 
Psa. 19. 13.—Keep back from presumptuous sins. 

2 Sam. 8. 1-14.—And after this David smote. 


Pottle 393 

Psa. 121. 1.—I will lift up mine eyes. 

Gen. 40. 23.—Yet did not the chief butler remember. 
Exod. 2. 20.—And where is he? 

Exod. 12. 14.—This day for a memorial. 

Psa. 40. 2.—Out of the pit of tumult. 

2 Kings 5. 14.—What then can be done for her? 


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Lottie 394 

The expression of Emerson, “Hitch your wagon to a star,” is 
very and beautifully suggestive, but much as it has of wisdom in 
it, there had been more wisdom had he said: “Hitch your wagon 
to THE STAR.” Fix our thoughts upon three great reasons: 

Reason 1. “The Star” is eternal; other stars, the earthen stars 
referred to by Emerson, are meteoric. They burn but a little 
while, at longest, and are burned out, and their help is but a little 
while, and they are helpless. We need to hitch our wagon to 
“The Star,” whose help is of eternal endurance. 

Reason 2. The centrifugal force of “The Star” is greater than 
centripetal forces, and so we have the guarantee that the ORBIT 
of each succeeding year of life will be inside the orbit of each 
previous year, till at the last we are with “The Star.” 

Reason 3. “The Star” is fixed in the new Jerusalem, and when 
the influence of his life has triumphed over ours we have our 
eternal abode guaranteed in the words of “The Star”: “Where I 
am, there ye shall be also.” 

“Hitch your wagon to a star” has lifted many a man from the 
gutter; it has changed many a hut into a palace; it has turned 
many a forest into fields; has covered great sloughs of waste 
with waving fields of grain—“Hitch your wagon to a star” has 
worked wonders in the world, but “Hitch your wagon to The 
Star” has wrought miracles, and ever will. It remains for it 
alone to lift the life from earth to heaven, make of a sinning 
soul a saint of God, and restore the image of him who “In begin¬ 
ning created man.” 

Pottle 395 

A certain cultured woman in the New England states, a Mrs. 
B., devoted her life for many years to the OUTCASTS. 

One day making her way to a New England PRISON she was 
met by the warden, who said: “We have a boy in the hospital, 
dying. We have sent for his mother—she cannot reach him 
before his death; you be a mother to him.” She sat by the cot of 
the boy, told him the story of Christ, and heard him say that his 
FAITH was in Jesus as his Saviour. 

Then he said: “The warden tells me that MOTHER can’t 
reach me before my DEATH; there is one request I want to 
make of you—you ask mother when she comes to bend over me 
and kiss me and say that she FORGIVES me for all my sins.” 

The Old Colony train came in and the mother was told of the 
boy’s last request. Then she stooped down and said as she 
kissed him, not only once, but many times: 

“Joe, your mother has come and she forgives you,” and then 
lifting her eyes she would exclaim: “But, O God, his Father!” and 
then she told the story that when the boy was nine years old she 
had found him one day INTOXICATED, and said his father 
had given him the drink. That was the beginning. This was 
the end. Then bending down she said: “Your mother has come, 
and she forgives you, but Oh, my God, the father!” 

God keep every man who has a son from doing what may give 
his boy a start for a ruined life and the hell beyond. 


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Pottle 394 

Rev. 22. 16.—The morning star. 

John 14. 3.—Where I am ye shall be. 

Judg. 2. 3.—As thorns in your sides. 

Prov. 27. 17.—So a man shapeth the countenance of a friend. 
1 Cor. 1. 30.—Let him glory in the Lord. 


pottle 395 

Gen. 47. 9.—How old art thou? 

2 Sam. 18. 29.—Is the young man safe? 

Luke 15. 18.—Father, I have sinned. 

Ezek. 18. 2.—The children’s teeth are set on edge. 
Luke 1. 17.—The hearts of fathers to the children. 


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pottle 396 

Leschetizky, the great MUSIC teacher of Vienna, tests a pupil 
sometimes by throwing a book on the floor behind the pupil’s 
back when the pupil is playing a DIFFICULT composition. 

If the pupil takes any notice of the noise the teacher becomes 
very angry, knowing that the pupil is not thoroughly ABSORBED 
in his work, or he would not know that anything unusual hap¬ 
pened. 

A CONCENTRATION is necessary to success, whether in the 
realm of intellect or of morals. 

Pottle 307 

Rev. Dr. John F. Cowan tells of a woman living near Boston, 
a frail, shut-in woman, who has not left her room for thirty years. 

She read Margaret Sangster’s story of Jessamine and resolved 
to give ten MINUTES a day to some one else. 

She had little to give the world’s distress, but in her prison 
house of PAIN she has done the one thing that she could do— 
she has knitted more than a hundred afghans and sent them to 
keep the SICK and needy women warm—although she has done 
no great thing we may easily believe that each one of the 
afghans has been at least one of the “cups” that Jesus mentions. 

Pottle 398 

Ex-Chief Bonner, of the New York fire department, once said 
that he could HEAR the slightest tap on the bell over his bed, 
while the baby could cry all night without disturbing him 

“My wife,” he added, “never hears the fire ALARM, but she 
wakes up at the slightest squeak from the baby.” 

There is a way of setting our EARS to the noises of the world 
as to shut out all other voices. 

There is a possibility of so setting our hearts for the MES¬ 
SAGES of God as that “the slightest tap on the bell” of 
CONSCIENCE will awake us. 

Pottle 399 

“Clara,” asked a lady of an old school friend whom she was 
visiting, “how is your HUSBAND getting on?” 

“Miserably,” answered the wife. 

“Why, how is that? Isn’t he making a lot of money?” 

“Oh, yes,” answered the wife, “John is making a lot of MONEY 
—some people call him RICH, but I call him POOR. 

“When we began life we read together—we had our CHURCH— 
we had our social hours with friends. 

“Now John has SOLD himself to work—he has no evenings— 
he has no Sundays—he puts everything back into his BUSINESS 
and puts all of himself into it and is a perfect SLAVE.” 

It is the FOLLY of a man and his SIN as well, that makes 
possible a HOME with such a poverty of fatherhood. 


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Pottle 396 

Psa. 42. 1.—As the hart panteth after the water brooks. 
Eccl. 9. 10.—Do it with thy might. 

1 Cor. 15. 58.—Always abounding in the work. 

Phil. 3. 13.—This one thing I do. 

2 Kings 13. 19.—Shouldst have smitten five or six times. 
Luke 8. 18.—Take heed how ye hear. 


Pottle 397 

Zech. 4. 10.—Despise not the day of small things. 
Luke 21. 3.—She of her penury cast in. 

Matt. 20. 28.—To minister and to give his life. 


Pottle 398 

Acts 24. 25.—Go thy way for this time. 

Heb. 2. 3.—How shall we escape if we neglect? 

Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience. 
John 10. 27.—My sheep hear my voice. 

Col. 3. 2.—Set your minds on the things above. 

Luke 8. 18.—Take heed how ye hear. 


Pottle 399 

Gal. 5. 9.—A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. 

2 Cor. 4. 18.—The things that are seen are temporal. 
Luke 12. 34.—Where your treasure is, your heart also. 
1 Tim. 6. 9.—They that will be rich. 

Acts 8. 20.—Thy money perish with thee. 


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Pottle 400 

Drifting away, a slave of the ocean, 

Bound to the arm of a merciless tide; 

Past losing sight of the light in the HARBOR, 
Sad and alone on the perilous ride. 

Drifting away in a darkness at noonday, 

Never a sunbeam to brighten the GLOOM; 

LOST in the fog of perplexity, silent. 

Dreading the future announcement of doom. 

Drifting away from Jesus the Saviour, 

Leaving the thrilling delight of his smile; 

Drawn by the tide of a weak INDECISION; 
Daring to float in midocean awhile. 

Drifting away from arms that would shield him, 
Loosing the ANCHOR that holds him at home; 

One by allurements of dark-eyed TEMPTATION, 
Ready with her o’er the waters to roam. 

Drifting away; a leaf on the breezes, 

Fluttering hither and thither in glee; 

Carelessly staining its beautiful garments, 
Scorning the sheltering bough of the tree. 

Drifting away; a human soul DRIFTING, 

Losing the seal of a Father’s great LOVE; 

THOUGHTLESSLY scattering riches eternal, 
Spurning the hand reaching down from above. 

Drifting away; caught up in a whirlwind, 
Suddenly rushing, eclipsing the sun; 

Far from all shelter, all ragged and wretched, 
Drifting forever, till life’s course is run. 

Drifting away, art thou ever drifting? 

See! there’s a lifeboat away on the sea. 

Following over the waters, thy Saviour 
Tenderly calls to thee, “Come back to me.” 

Look in his eyes. The current is changing! 
Drifting thou art towards protection and home, 

Rescued from whirlwind and wild foaming rapids 
Safe into harbor at last thou wilt come. 

Drifting away—each spirit drifts onward, 

Time swiftly^passeth; Eternity calls. 

Souls sink in darkness or ANCHOR in Heaven, 
Oh! shun the currents that dash o’er the falls. 


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pottle 400 

1 Kings 20. 40.—Busy here and there, he was gone. 

2 Chron. 15. 3.—A long time without, but when they turn. 
Jer. 8. 20.—A harvest past, the summer ended. 

Acts 24. 25.—Felix trembled and said, “Go thy way.” 

Rom. 1. 20.—God gave them up. 

Heb. 2. 1.—Lest we drift by them. 

Heb. 6. 19.—An anchor of the soul. 


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Pottle 401 

Jacob Riis in his article on Theodore Roosevelt tells of an 
incident occurring during the hostilities in the Philippines. A 
military order had been issued not to telegraph the names of 
the PRIVATE soldiers who were killed or who had died of 
cholera. 

When a battle was reported and a certain number of soldiers 
killed every mother with a. boy in the regiment engaged had to 
wait six weeks before she knew whether her boy was one of 
those killed. 

Riis went to Oyster Bay, to the home of the president. Sitting 
at the table with a number of the soldiers and statesmen Mr. 
Riis made an opportunity to ask about this order. 

President Roosevelt looked up quickly at Adjutant-General 
Corbin, who sat right opposite. 

“General,” said Mr. Roosevelt, “is there such an order?” 

“Yes, Mr. President,” he said, “there is.” “Why?” asked the 
President. 

General Corbin explained that it was a measure of ECONOMY— 
the telegraph tolls were heavy—an officer had a code word—just 
one, to pay for, whereas to send the whole name and place of a 
PRIVATE soldier under the Pacific Ocean might easily cost 
perhaps twenty-five dollars. 

The president heard him out, and then said: “Corbin, can you 
telegraph from here to the Philippines?” 

The General thought he might wait until he got to Washington. 
He was going in an hour. 

“No,” said the President. “We will not wait. Send the order 
to have the names telegraphed now. Those MOTHERS gave the 
best they had to their country. We will not have them breaking 
their hearts for twenty-five dollars or for fifty. Save the money 
somewhere else.” 

“Hearts are more than coronets,” and President Roosevelt had 
an eye for real VALUES and a SYMPATHY in highest terms 
COMMENDABLE. 

Pottle 402 

A gentleman walking along the beach at SAVIN Rock, near 
New Haven, Conn., discovered an OYSTER with a gold ring in its 
shell. He pried it open and found what looked to be a new gold 
WEDDING-RING that the oyster had grown completely around. 

The ring bore the inscription “H. R. to L. D., 1875.” It did 
not look as though it had been worn. 

According to growers there the ring was probably dropped 
overboard at least twenty years ago and landed on an oyster just 
starting to grow. 

Unable to shake it off the oyster grew around it and eventually 
almost covered it with its shell. 

There are many men who in the same way acquire learning. 
God drops golden truth, memory lays hold on it, but the truth is 
never ASSIMILATED. 

As with this oyster, so with CHILDHOOD; what is received is 
apt to be retained whether it be of LEARNING or of goodness. 


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Lottie 401 

Eph. 3. 15.—The whole family named. 

Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience. 

Luke 12. 7.—More value than many sparrows. 

Luke 7. 13.—And when the Lord saw, he had compassion. 


pottle 402 

1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart. 

2 Cor. 3. 18.—Changed into the same image. 

Prov. 22. 6.—Train up a child, he will not depart. 
Joel 1. 3.—Tell ye your children of it. 

2 Tim. 1. 5.—Thy grandmother, thy mother and thee. 


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pottle 403 

The Rev. H. W. Pope, Secretary of Northfield Extension, tells 
us of two occasions in his personal experience where a very little 
SERVICE for God had very encouraging results. The first was 
of a man who stepped into a street car in New York and before 
taking his seat gave to each passenger a little card bearing the 
words: “Look to Jesus when TEMPTED, when TROUBLED, when 
dying.” 

One of the passengers carefully read the card and put it in his 
pocket. As he left the car he said to the giver: “Sir, when you 
gave me this card I was on my way to the ferry, intending to 
jump from the boat and drown myself. The death of my wife 
and son had robbed me of all desire to live. This card has 
persuaded me to begin life anew. Good day, and God bless you.” 

The second was as to a woman who once traveled nearly two 
hundred miles to tell Rev. Pope personally how a CARD which 
he had given her had led to her CONVERSION. 

It lay in her bureau drawer, bearing its SILENT TESTIMONY 
from time to time as she read it, until finally it led her to 
DECISION. 

There are none who have so little ability but that they might 
do LITTLE acts of SERVICE like these that are guaranteed to 
have RESULTANT and REWARD. 

Pottle 404 

Agassiz, wishing to study the glittering interior of an Alpine 
chasm, had himself lowered into a crevice in a glacier and re¬ 
mained for some hours at midday, hundreds of feet below the 
surface of the ice. After gratifying his curiosity he gave the 
signal to be drawn up, and tells in the following words about a 
miscalculation they had made: 

“In our haste we had forgotten the weight of the rope. We 
had calculated the weight of my person, of the basket in which I 
rode, but had forgotten the weight of the rope that let me down 
into the chasm. The three men at the summit were not strong 
enough to draw me back. 

“I had to remain there until one of the party went five miles, 
two and a half out and two and a half back, to the nearest tree 
to get wood enough to make a lever to draw me up.” 

When a man is making calculations about the HABITS that 
drop his life below appointed levels, like Agassiz, he is apt to 
miscalculate, and when he seeks to lift himself, or to be LIFTED, 
he finds that which in this instance is paralleled in the “weight 
of the rope,” and has a greater effort and a greater length of 
time before him than he dreamed of. 

Pottle 405 

“PAUL’S FOUR READYS” 

1. Ready for SUFFERING. 3. Ready for SERVING again. 

2. Ready for SERVING. 4. Ready for SACRIFICE. 


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pottle 403 

Gal. 6. 9.—In due season we shall reap. 
Zech. 4. 10.—The day of small things. 
Mark 16. 15.—Preach to every creature. 
Acts 8. 29.—Join thyself to this chariot, 
Exod. 2. 20.—Aiid where is he? 

Mark 9. 41.—In no wise lose his regard. 


pottle 404 

Eph. 4. 14.—Carried about by every wind of doctrine. 
Eph. 5. 15.—See that ye walk to a point. 

Luke 4. 16.—As his custom was. 

1 Sam. 3. 13.—He restrained them not. 


Pottle 405 

Acts 21. 13.—I am ready to be bound. 

Rom. 1. 15.—I am ready to preach. 

2 Cor. 12. 14.—The third time I am ready to come. 

2 Tim. 4. 6.—I am ready to be offered. 

Mark 4. 28.—First the blade, then the ear; after that. 


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bottle 406 

Mark Guy Pearse gives an incident occurring in connection 
with a sermon of his on Christ’s INVITATION to the weary and 
HEAVY laden: “I had finished my sermon when a good man 
came to me and said: T wish I had known what you were going 
to preach about. I could have told you something.’ 

“Well, my friend,” I said, “it is very good of you. May I have 
it still? Do you know why his YOKE is light, sir?” 

“Well, because the good Lord helps us to carry it, I suppose.” 

“No, sir,” he exclaimed, shaking his head, “I think I know 
better than that. You see when I was a boy at home I used to 
drive the OXEN, and the yoke was never made to BALANCE, as 
you said. Father’s yokes were always made heavier on the one 
side than the other. Then, you see, we would put a WEAK bullock 
in alongside of a STRONG bullock, the light end would come on 
the weak ox, the heavier end on the stronger one. 

“That’s why the yoke is EASY and the burden is LIGHT— 
because the Lord’s yoke is made after the same pattern, and the 
heavy end is upon His shoulder.” 

Pottle 407 

Rev. Burchit, of Springfield, Ill., tells of an amusing incident, 
but one with a moral to it, that happened in his home. 

A neighbor came over to spend the evening, bringing a phono¬ 
graph and two or three boxes of cylinders. To the naked eye the 
cylinders all seemed alike, but the labels said one was a hymn 
and another a foolish minstrel song; the next a selection from an 
oratorio and the fourth a cake-walk, and so on. 

But when we came to play the pieces we found out what was 
in them, and that some mischief-maker had mixed up the labels 
so we couldn’t possibly tell the nature of a record until we had 
LISTENED to it. Like these records are men and women. 

They may seem very much alike, or some of them may be so 
labeled as to promise good, and others as to promise evil, but we 
never know until we have LISTENED to the life HIDDEN in the 
record. With some we are disappointed, with others are surprised. 

Pottle 408 

Rev. F. B. Meyer says: “When I was a boy I used to go to the 
Polytechnic, in London, where my favorite diversion was a 
diving bell which had seats around the rim and which, at a given 
time, was filled with people and lowered into the tank. 

“We used to go down deeper and deeper into the water, but 
not a drop ever came into the diving bell, although it had no 
bottom and the water was quite within reach, because the bell 
was so FULL of air that though the water LUSTED against the 
air the air LUSTED against the water. 

“The air was being pumped in all the while from the top and 
the water could not do what it otherwise would.” 

The life that is FULL of the Holy Spirit, although the FLESH* 
life is underneath and round about, yet is it kept outside the life. 


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pottle 406 

Matt. 11. 30.—My yoke is easy. 

Lam. 3. 27.—Good to bear the yoke in youth. 
Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is*peace (Life-rest). 

Gal. 6. 2.—Bear ye one another’s burdens. 


Pottle 407 

Num. 32. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you out. 

Josh. 9. 4.—They did work wilily. 

Matt. 7. 16.—By their fruits shall ye know. 

Matt. 24. 24.—Deceive if possible the elect. 

2 John 1. 7.—Many deceivers are entered into the world. 
Psa. 55. 21.—But his heart was war. 


pottle 408 

Gal. 5. 17.—The Spirit lusteth against the flesh. 
Eph. 5. 18.—Be filled with the SPIRIT. 

Prov. 30. 26.—The conies are but a feeble folk. 
Matt. 16. 18.—The gates of hades shall not prevail. 
Luke 10. 39.—Mary who sat at the Lord’s feet. 


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Pottle 409 

The life of the Japanese boy, Joseph Neesima, is a great 
demonstration of the singleness of PURPOSE as well as of other 
qualities of value. 

He was born in Japan, in 1843, taught the Chinese language, 
and worshiped the household gods that stood on the shelf at home. 
These “whittled gods,” even as a lad, he refused to BELIEVE in. 

At the age of sixteen he read from a borrowed Bible history 
the first verse of Genesis. Still bent to the one purpose he con¬ 
cluded to search in other lands for LIGHT. 

At last he reached Hongkong, China, and thence took shipping 
for America with Alpheus Hardy, a Christian ship owner. 

Mr. Hardy became interested in Neesima, ADOPTED him, 
graduated him from Phillips Academy, from Amherst College, and 
Andover Seminary, and when President Seele, of Amherst, was 
asked for a RECOMMENDATION, he said: “I can’t gild gold.” 

At the age of thirty-one years, in 1874, Neesima was ordained 
to the Gospel Ministry, and shortly after left for his native land 
and his LIFE work. 

In 1890, a few days before his death, he wrote a letter, and his 
own words tell us of his DREAMS for the Christ. He wrote: 
“Fifteen years ago I had a day dream to found a Christian 
COLLEGE in Japan. No one ENCOURAGED the hope—I was 
on the eve of leaving America—I thought I might bring up the 
matter at the annual meeting of the American Board—my bene¬ 
factor said to me: ‘Joseph, the matter looks "dubious, but try it.* 

“With TREMBLING knees, I, a poor, untried speaker, came on 
the platform—I couldn’t think of my prepared speech, but in a 
few moments my trembling knees grew firm—new thoughts flashed 
into my mind—I spoke for fifteen minutes, and before I closed 
five thousand dollars was subscribed for the college in Japan— 
that was the beginning of the great college of Doshisha—the 
college was builded and named Doshisha, meaning, ‘One EN¬ 
DEAVOR Society.’” 

It is a paraphrase of this saying of Paul: “This one thing I do.” 

In one of his letters he says: “My HEART is like a VOLCANO 
of fire for the LOVE of souls in Japan.” He died in January, 
1890, at the age of forty-seven years, with these words on his 
lips: “JOY—PEACE—HEAVEN.” 

Pottle 410 

After Giotto, the Artist, had won some fame an agent of the 
Pope, who wished to have some painting done by the best 
ARTISTS in Italy, therefore sent the servant to get examples of 
the work of all the great painters. 

When Giotto’s caller wanted a drawing or painting Giotto took 
a piece of paper and made a CIRCLE on it with one turn of his 
hand, and sent that as a SAMPLE of his ability. 

The man or woman who, whenever called upon of God, can fill 
in the “circle” of the Spirit’s FRUIT as it is drawn in the fifth 
chapter of Galatians is an artist of high rank—let them paint for 
you and teach you the Artist Life. 


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Pottle 409 

Gen. 1. 1.—In beginning God created. 

John 3. 16.—Might not perish but have everlasting life. 
Phil. 3. 13.—This one thing I do. 

Luke 18. 30.—Manifold more in this present time. 

Psa. 23. 4.—Through the valley of the shadow. 

1 Cor. 15. 57.—Thanks to God who giveth victory. 


Pottle 410 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the spirit. 

2 Tim. 3. 5.—A form of Godliness. 

Acts 28. 6.—After they looked they changed their mind. 
Gal. 5. 7.—Ye did run well, who ditched you? 


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pottle 411 

Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus narrates the following incident connected 
with his pastorate of Plymouth Church, Chicago, of which Philip 
D. Armour was one of the most eminent parishioners. Mr. Ar¬ 
mour had long admired Dr. Henry M. Field, editor of the New 
York Evangelist, and brother of Cyrus W. Field, the inventor of 
the ocean telegraph. He was greatly distressed when he heard 
of the decline of the journal and that it threatened to leave its 
editor and owner in PENURY in his old age. 

The packer asked Dr. Gunsaulus to invite Mr. Field to Chicago, 
and then he himself INVITED them both to dinner in his home. 

At the table Mr. Armour turned the conversation almost im¬ 
mediately to the editor’s brother, already long deceased. 

Said Mr. Armour: “I’m sorry that I did not, in your brother’s 
lifetime, recognize more clearly my DEBT to him. Now, I sit in 
my office and communicate with my agents all over the world 
and my business multiplies wonderfully just because of it. 

“I OWE it all to your brother. If it had not been for his 
faith in the ocean CABLE I could never have built up such a 
trade. I keep wishing I had done something while he was living 
to show him that I APPRECIATED his achievement.” 

This strain of conversation was kept up and toward the last of 
the meal a plate was set before Mr. Field containing among the 
viands of that course a slip of folded paper. Mr. Field opened it 
and found written within: “Good for ten thousand dollars, payable 
at the office of the Armour Packing Company, to the brother of 
Cyrus W. Field.” The venerable man was overwhelmed and 
scarcely able to express his feelings, but could not, of course, 
decline the gift CREDITED, as it was, to his brother’s life. 

One lesson from this incident is that there is a way relatively 
of compelling the ACCEPTANCE of a GIFT, and therefore where 
there is a will to give there is a way. Pitiable are the lives 
that are HYPOCRITIC enough to offer gift or favor when to them 
a declining of the gift is pleasurable. 

A second lesson is that the gift of God is more than ten 
thousand dollars and is by an elder Brother made possible. 

^Bottle 412 

An English preacher uses the following illustration: “Once 
there was a briar growing in a ditch and there came along a 
gardener with his spade. As he dug around the briar and lifted 
it out the BRIAR said to itself: “What is he doing that for? 
Doesn’t he know I am only an old WORTHLESS briar?” But 
he took it into the garden and planted it with his flowers, while 
the briar said: “WHAT a MISTAKE he has made, planting an old 
briar like myself among such rose trees as these!” 

The GARDENER came once more with his knife, made a slit in 
the briar and BUDDED It with a ROSE, and when summer came, 
LOVELY roses were blooming on that old briar. 

Then the GARDENER said: “Your beauty is not due to that 
which came out, but to that which I put into you.” A true 
parable this of the beautiful possibility of human life. 


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Pottle 411 

Gen. 49. 22.—His branches run over the wall. 

Gal. 6. 22.—The fruit is love (Life-reach). 

1 Kings 7. 22.—Upon the top of the pillars, lilywork. 

2 Kings 4. 14.—What then can be done for her? 
Rom. 13. 7.—Honor to whom honor is due. 


Pottle 412 

2 Sam. 9. 12.—Mephibosheth as one of the king’s sons. 
2 Kings 6. 6.—The iron did swim. 

Isa. 27. 6.—Fill the face of the world with fruit. 

Isa. 55. 13.—Instead of the thorn, the fir tree. 

Jer. 17. 9.—The heart is deceitful and desperately sick. 
Rom. 11. 17.—And was grafted in among them. 


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JBottle 413 

In July, 1907, there was a sorrowful funeral from the medical 
department of the University of Berlin. It was that of Professor 
Maximilian Schouler. 

He was well known in the University because of his success in 
the treatment of CANCER—he believed he had discovered a 
cure and was anxiously watching experiments he was making. 

It was necessary that the cultures he was preparing should 
be kept exactly at blood heat, and so had a cartridge belt made 
that would hold the test tubes. These he placed in the belt and 
wore it around his body in contact with his own flesh. 

His friends protested against the experiment and WARNED 
him of the DANGER. He was, however, resolved. 

As had been predicted, so it occurred. An accidental blow 
broke one of the tubes, his skin was punctured and the deadly 
culture passed into his blood. In spite of all that could be done, 
he contracted an acute cancer and died in three months. 

Such DEVOTION is splendid, even if the CURE is not se¬ 
cured—even though we may question the wisdom of the devotion. 
But there is a devotion more worthy of admiration than this—it 
is that of the Man of the CROSS, who knew beforehand that his 
AMBITION accomplished meant that the deadly cultures of SIN 
must pass into his own body and take away his life in more 
than cancerous agonies. 

Another lesson—beware of cancer cultures. Yes, but BEWARE, 
with an infinitely greater concern, of Sin cultures. 

pottle 414 

When news first came of the DESTRUCTION of the massive 
stone buildings at Stanford University experts couldn’t under¬ 
stand the failure of the buildings to withstand the shocks of the 
EARTHQUAKE, for they, more than many a building less PRE¬ 
TENTIOUS, were wrecked. 

It now appears that what is called “Jerry” building was 
responsible, and that a huge GRAFT had been worked. 

Instead of massive stone wall there was only the VENEER of 
stone and the interior was filled with chip stone and poor cement. 

The MEMORIAL arch, PRAISED as one of the finest bits of 
mural work in the country, is a complete RUIN and a witness to 
rotten masonry that no INSPECTOR should have passed. 

In our Christian day men need to work as once a heathen 
sculptor did. He was carving a statue to stand in a niche in a 
temple, and his friends were surprised that he took as much 
of pains with the back part of the statue as with the part 
which was in front, and so they said to him: “Why are you so 
careful about that part? It has to stand in a niche in the wall. 
It will not be seen.” “Because the gods will see it,” said he. 

There are two reasons for the building of a life; one is that 
God will see it. Another is that some life-earthquake will TEST 
it—many a life is shaken to pieces by some providence, as 
Stanford University was, because while we thought it strong—a 
solid wall, it was only so much veneer. 


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Pottle 413 

Prov. 4. 15.—Avoid it, pass not by it. 

Dan. 3. 27.—Nor had the smell of fire passed on them. 
Rom. 1. 16.—The power of God unto safety. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—We are ambitious. 

Mark 15. 31.—He saved others—himself he cannot save. 


pottle 414 

2 Kings 8. 13.—Is thy servant a dog? 

Eccl. 12. 14.—Every work into judgment, every secret. 
Dan. 6. 10.—Prayed as he did aforetime. 

Jonah 2. 1.—Prayed out of the fish’s belly. 

Matt. 26. 72.—He denied with an oath. 

Matt. 26. 15.—For thirty pieces of silver. 

Mark 7. 6.—Their heart is far from me. 


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Pottle 415 

In Greek mythology there is a legend that Ulysses, the great 
traveler of those mythical times, once in his wanderings came to 
the Southern shore of Italy where the Sirens lived. 

These were a kind of mermaid, beautiful in person and 
especially in voice, but MALIGNANT in soul. 

They SANG on the shore as ships were passing and with their 
sweet song LURED the mariners to destruction on the rocks. 

But Ulysses was a WISE traveler and, aware of the DANGER, 
he took measures to provide for his SAFETY. 

Assembling the sailors he explained the situation and then 
he stuffed their ears with wax—his own ears were open, but he 
made the sailors bind him hand and foot to the mast, and so 
they reached the place FATAL to so many. 

The Sirens came out and sang their sweetest; the sailors, 
hearing nothing, pulled stubbornly on. Ulysses heard and was 
so intoxicated that he would have done anything to have reached 
the shore, but bound hand and foot he could do nothing, and so 
they rounded the promontory and the danger was passed. 

There are Sirens—not mythical, but real, today. Beware. 

pottle 416 

In 1904 Frank Bane, three years old, of Hoboken, near Pitts¬ 
burg, Pa., started out “to see the world” from the rear step of a 
bakery wagon—the driver knew not of the VENTURESOME tot. 

At his home in Hoboken the excitement was intense, for he 
had been missed and a search was instituted. The neighbors 
dropped their work and were ringing bells, and hundreds of 
people peered into nooks and corners to find the LOST boy. 

Finally his uncle, Frank Leer, learned that the boy had been 
seen on a bakery wagon and found the young boy at Aspinwall. 

In this instance it may not have been a PARENTAL fault or 
SIN, but many a child is like “Topsy,” in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”— 
set ADRIFT in the world from what is called a HOME. 

And we do know that there are men who start out “to see the 
world,” that are hard to find and when found, if found at all, 
after years of search, are scarcely recognizable. 

pottle 417 

Carl Hastings stood waiting at a station and a party of train¬ 
men were on the platform—a brakeman, vexed over some delay, 
gave vent to OATHS—as the others moved away Carl said to 
him, “You wouldn’t use your MOTHER’S name in that way, 
would you?” The young man looked up, surprised, and said: 
“No, I wouldn’t.” “Well,” said Hastings, “how much more care¬ 
ful we should be about the NAME of God.” 

Some time after Mr. Hastings was again traveling over the 
road. A man came and sat down beside him, saying: “I don’t 
believe you REMEMBER me, but I have never FORGOTTEN 
what you said that day on the platform, and I have not since then 
been GUILTY of SWEARING.” 


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Pottle 415 

1 Cor. 10. 13.—With the temptation a way to escape. 

2 Cor. 11. 14.—Satan as an angel of light. 

Jer. 31. 14.—My people will be satisfied. 

Prov. 4. 15.—Avoid it, pass not by it. 

Matt. 10. 16.—Wise as serpents. 

Mark 4. 24.—Take heed what ye hear. 


Pottle 416 

Acts 2. 39.—Unto you and your children. 

Luke 19. 10.—To seek and to save the lost. 

1 Kings 20. 40.—Busy here and there, he was gone. 
Isa. 5. 13.—Into captivity because no knowledge. 


Pottle 4X7 

Exod. 20. 7.—The name of Jehovah, thy God, in vain. 
Neh. 13. 24.—Half in the speech of Ashdod. 

Job 2. 9.—Said his wife, “Curse God and die.” 

Psa. 95. 6.—Let us kneel before Jehovah (reverence). 
Prov. 10. 31.—A froward tongue shall be cut out. 

Prov. 25. 11.—A word fitly spoken is apples of gold. 
James 1. 19.—Swift to hear, slow to speak. 


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pottle 418 

There is a story told about the Argonauts, who were sailing to 
Pontus in search of the golden fleece, and had to pass the Siren 
coast of Southern Italy. In their ship' with them was Orpheus, 
the great singer of those mythical times. 

It is said he sang so ravishingly that lions and tigers came 
crouching to his feet, and even rocks and trees followed where 
he went. Every day on this voyage he poured his enchanting 
strains into the EARS of the Argonauts. 

At length they arrived at the dangerous spot and the Sirens 
came forth and sang, but the Argonauts only laughed at them and 
passed SAFELY on. It was because of the superior MUSIC of 
Orpheus that the inferior music did not lure or charm. 

This is mythology, but it is an illustration of real life. The 
great Orpheus, Christ, can so fill life with the heavenly and divine 
as that the “siren songs” of earth cannot allure. 

pottle 419 

The late Charles Reade, of England, the EMINENT novelist, 
was led to STUDY the Old Testament by a remark of the late 
FAMOUS Matthew Arnold. The remark was as follows: “The 
old BIBLE is getting to be to us literary men of England a 
SEALED book—we think we know it—we were taught it at 
HOME—we heard it read in CHURCH—perhaps we can quote 
some verse or even passage, but we really know very little of it. 
I wish, Reade, that you would take up the Old Testament and go 
through it as though every page of it were altogether new to 
you—as though you had never read a line of it before. I think 
it will astonish you.” 

Mr. Reade did so. He entered upon the task with such zeal as 
characterized his work. The result was he not only became 
astonished at his discoveries, but the study led to his CONVER¬ 
SION. He opened his heart to the TRUTHS of the Old Testa¬ 
ment and found them full of CONVINCING power. 

pottle 420 

A few years ago a man went to Brighton searching for 
REMINISCENCES of Frederick ROBERTSON, the great 
PREACHER. 

He went into a little shop and asked the shop-keeper if he 
remembered anything about Robertson, of Brighton. The man 
said: “Come here, sir,” and he took him into a room back of 
the shop and showed him on the wall the portrait of Frederick W. 
Robertson, saying: “If I ever am TEMPTED to do MEAN things 
in this business I come into this room and look at the picture of 
Robertson and I cannot do a mean thing. I cannot do it!” 

It is well for us to have In photographic picture or in mind 
picture some face that can be called up in the tempting times and 
keep us from the mean things; but the best of plans is to have 
a painting of the Christ hung on our walls or in our minds at 
which to look and by which to be TRANSFORMED. 


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pottle 418 

1 Cor. 10. 13.—With the temptation a way to escape. 
Mark 4. 24.—Take heed what ye hear. 

Matt. 10. 16.—Wise as serpents. 

Jer. 31. 14.—My people shall be satisfied. 

2 Cor. 11. 14.—Satan as an angel of light. 


pottle 419 

Heb. 12. 2.—Every weight and sin—by looking. 

2 Cor. 3. 18.—Transformed. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—All scripture is inspired and is profitable. 
Acts 17. 12.—Examine daily, therefore many believed. 
John 17. 17.—Thy word is truth. 

Psa. 19. 10.—Sweeter than droppings of the honeycomb. 
Psa. 119. 130.—The entrance of thy words giveth light. 


Pottle 420 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is goodness (Life-reenforcement). 
Heb. 12. 2.—Every weight and sin—by looking. 

1 Thes. 5. 11.—And build each other up. 

1 Chron. 13. 3.—We enquired not in the days of Saul. 
John 15. 16.—And that your fruit might remain. 


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Pottle 421 

Mr. E. A. Abbey, R.A., in speaking of his great work, “The 
Quest of the Holy Grail,” says: “For this picture I visited the 
remote countries and went over the whole of the South of 
France. 

“It took me several YEARS to STUDY the dress, the colors, 
and the architecture of the period—to obtain bits of old castles 
and buildings I made plaster casts of many things in France.” 

From beginning to end this single painting of this great 
American artist represents YEARS of unremitting LABOR and 
ten thousand miles of travel in SEARCH of material. 

Before Luke Fildes, R.A., put the first stroke on his CANVAS, 
“The Cotter,” he spent MONTHS traveling over England and 
Scotland, from Devonshire to Inverness, in order to familiarize 
himself with the cottagers and their homes, and when once his 
IDEAL cottage was pictured in his brain he had it builded in his 
STUDIO, correct to the SMALLEST detail. 

So careful was he to reproduce the doctor he had in his mind 
that, as he says, “several people sat for me, and what I did was 
to get a brow from one person, an eye from another, a bald head 
from a third, and so on.” 

Mr. Leader, the great landscape ARTIST, never spares himself 
in the pursuit of his ideal. He has tramped many thousands of 
miles, carrying a large canvas and all his painting paraphernalia. 

He says: “To get a single effect I used to go five miles and 
more, and carry all my traps, including a seven-foot canvas, on 
my back.” 

These are not the unusual in a SUCCESSFUL ARTIST life. 

If there be such energy and enthusiasm to put a picture on the 
canvas as it ought to be, with an equal energy, at least, and with 
an equal enthusiasm, ought we to undertake to paint a picture on 
life-canvas as it ought to be, thus to make one eternal and 
beautiful painting. 


Pottle 422 


The monument of Christ on the cordillera of the Andes has a 
grand significance. Fourteen thousand feet above the sea, upon 
a pinnacle it stands, surrounded by peaks of perpetual snow. 
Chile and Argentina have lifted it as a tangible WITNESS of 


international BROTHERHOOD. 

On this colossal monument of the Christ is the inscription on 
its granite pedestal: “Sooner shall these mountains crumble to 
dust than Argentines and Chileans break the PEACE which, at 
the feet of Christ, the Redeemer, they have sworn to maintain,” 
and on the opposite side of the base the angel song of Bethlehem: 
“Peace on earth, good will to all men!” 

The STATUE cost about a hundred thousand dollars and was 
paid for by subscriptions from the people, the working classes 
contributing liberally. 

The older the Christian era the farther out and the farther 
up reaches the influence of the Man of Galilee. 


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Pottle 421 

John 13. 15.—I have given you an example. 

Eph. 5. 15.—See that ye walk to a point. 

John 6. 27.—Labor not for the meat that perisheth. 

Heb. 6. 1.—Let us press on unto full growth. 

2 Cor. 12. 14.—The third time I am ready to come. 

2 Tim. 2. 15.—A workman that needeth not to be ashamed. 


Pottle 422 

Luke 2. 14.—And on earth peace. 

Acts 2. 1.—All with one accord in one place. 

Isa. 2. 4.—Their swords into plowshares. 

1 John 4. 20.—He who loveth God love his brother. 
Eph. 3. 15.—The whole family in heaven and on earth. 


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Pottle 423 

How is it that our great naval guns can send their balls of 
steel weighing half a ton for fifteen and twenty miles? Is it that 
the guns are so very large or the charge of POWDER is tre¬ 
mendous? No, not for that reason, not for that reason chiefly, 
but because they have tremendous REENFORCEMENT—else the 
CANNON would recoil and the ball would fall within a mile. 

Why is it that some men can speak to the WAYWARD and 
PRODIGAL and as they LISTEN respectfully the word finds its 
way far into the heart, and you hear them say: “Well, that man 
PRACTICES what he PREACHES and it is all right,” while 
from another there is a turning away with DISGUST, and you 
hear the word “Hypocrite” ground out between the teeth? 

How is it? Ah, it is the REENFORCEMENT, the thorough 
GODLINESS; it is the GOODNESS of the life. 

Pottle 424 

In December, 1907, Ray McWreath, of McDonald, Pa., re¬ 
ceived notification that he had won second PRIZE in Uncle 
Sam’s big NAVY for MARKSMANSHIP. 

McWreath hit the target bullseye five times in fifty-six seconds, 
with the ship going twelve knots an hour. He is on the Minnesota 
and it is less than a year since he entered the navy. 

Pottle 425 

There is a city whose gates are WIDE, 

Its pavements pure and clean. 

Where shadow forms flit side by side 
On the road called “Might Have Been.” 

But folks walk there with their heads BOWED low. 

And heavy eyelids met, 

For every corner is haunted so 
In this, “The Land of REGRET.” 

They meet the ghosts of those other years 
In dreams of memory sweet, 

And wet with passionate, FRENZIED tears 
The graves which lie at their feet; 

But never, long as their lives shall last. 

Can they again FORGET 
Who once have walked with ghosts of the PAST 
In this, “The Land of Regret.” 

They feel the touch of a hand grown still, 

Its fingers softly press. 

The tender passion of kisses thrill 
Their own in a fond caress. 

Ah, me!—but PITY the folks who STRAY 
Where long the sun hath set 
And walk with the ghosts who are laid away 
In this, “The Land of Regret.” 


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Pottle 423 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is goodness (Life-reenforcement). 
Acts 11. 24.—And much people was added. 

Gen. 4. 8.—And Cain talked with Abel, his brother. 
Eph. 5. 15.—See that ye walk to a point. 


bottle 424 

Rev. 3. 16.—Because thou art lukewarm. 

Heb. 6. 1.—Let us press on unto full growth. 
Rom. 12. 11.—Not slothful in business. 

Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up. 


pottle 425 

Num. 14. 25.—Tomorrow get you into the wilderness. 
Judg. 16. 21.—He did grind in the prisonhouse. 

1 Kings 20. 40.—Busy here and there; he was gone. 
Heb. 2. 1.—Lest we drift by them. 

Jer. 8. 20.—The harvest is past, the summer ended. 
Rom. 1. 26.—God gave them up. 

Heb. 12. 17.—He found no place of repentance. 


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pottle 426 

On the bank of the Niagara River, where the great rapids 
begin to swell and swirl most desperately, preparatory to their 
final plunge, is a sign board, which bears this startling legend: 
“Past REDEMPTION point!” Even to read it one feels the 
firm soil beneath his feet send a shiver of horror through his 
frame as he looks off upon the turbulent waters, and even at this 
distance realizes a little of the significance of that sign. 

But to the one who gets out into the boiling rapids and passes 
that point—and cannot RETRACE his way—cannot pull to the 
shore—cannot be RESCUED by friends—what must it mean to 
him? He is not yet dead, but perhaps he had better be, for he 
must give up all HOPE and with the certain plunge before him 
wait until death ends the suspense of certainty. 

It means enough out in Niagara River, but how much more to 
the life that passes life’s fingerboard that reads: “Past redemp¬ 
tion point.” 


Pottle 427 

A CONVERTED COWBOY gives this as his idea of what 
RELIGION is: “Lots of folks that would really like to do right 
think that servin’ the Lord means shouting themselves hoarse 
praisin’ his name. Now, I’ll tell you how I look at it. 

“I’m working for Jim, here. Now if I’d sit ’round the house 
here, telling what a good fellow Jim is and singing songs to 
him and gettin’ up in the night to SERENADE him, I’d be 
doing just what lots of Christians do, but I wouldn’t suit Jim and 
I’d get fired mighty quick. 

“But when I buckle on my straps and HUSTLE among the 
hills and see that Jim’s HERD is all right and not suffering for 
water and feed or bein’ off the range and branded by cow 
THIEVES, then I’m SERVING Jim as he wants to be served.” 


Pottle 428 

An old gentleman remarked: “When I was a LITTLE BOY 
somebody gave me a cucumber in a bottle. The neck of the 
bottle was small and the cucumber so large that it wasn’t 
POSSIBLE for it to pass through the neck of the bottle. 

“I was greatly puzzled to know how it got there, but one day 
later, out in the garden, I came upon a bottle slipped over a little 
green fellow that was slipped upon the vines, and then I under¬ 
stood it all. 

“The CUCUMBER had GROWN in the bottle,” and then, he 
added: “I often see men with HABITS that I wonder strong, 
sensible men could form, and then I think, like the cucumber in 
the bottle, they started growing inside when they were YOUNG, 
and have grown so big that nothing but a MIRACLE can slip 
them out again.” 

A boy or girl can’t be too careful about bottle habits. 


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Pottle 426 

1 Kings 20. 40.—Busy here and there, he was gone. 

2 Chron. 15. 3.—A long time without, but when they turned. 
Jer. 8. 20.—The harvest is past, the summer ended. 

Ezek. 33. 6.—His blood at the watchman’s hands. 

Matt. 8. 12.—The weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

Acts 24. 25.—Felix trembled and said, Go thy way. 

Heb. 2. 1.—Lest we drift by them. 


Pottle 427 

John/15. 14.—My friends, if ye do. 

John 21. 16.—Feed my sheep. 

Isa. 27. 6.—Fill the face of the world with fruit. 

Isa. 40. 31.—They that wait pass on. 

Isa. 61. 1.—Anointed to preach, to bind, to comfort, to give. 


Pottle 428 

Num. 32. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you out. 
Mark 4. 28.—After that the full corn in the ear, 
Prov. 4. 23.—Keep thy heart with all diligence. 
Lam. 3. 27.—Good to bear the yoke in youth. 


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pottle 429 

The Salton Sea, of Southern California and Northern Mexico, 
has assumed not only national, but international, IMPORTANCE. 

This sea resulted from the tapping of the Colorado River for 
irrigation, by which its water was let into this large depression 
of California and Mexico. 

The river had been originally tapped below Yuma and carried 
water from Arizona through a canal into Northern Mexico and 
back into a great Valley in Southern California. 

But in 1904 this canal was found inadequate and a Mexican 
corporation was authorized by Mexico to take water from the 
Colorado, in Mexico, a short distance from Yuma. 

The cut was made, but there was DELAY in putting in the 
gates, and with the high water of 1905 the Colorado broke through 
the opening, flowing into this depression in California, and soon 
the whole volume of the Colorado was emptying into this 
Salton Sea. The sea covered four hundred square miles. 

And it threatened to spread over two thousand square miles. 

Questions of DAMAGES have arisen and RESPONSIBILITY 
for the sea is now engaging American and Mexican diplomacy. 

The American and Mexican government engineers are trying 
to throw the river back into its own channel, and they have 
hopes after a time to succeed, but even should they succeed, it 
will take many years before this land can be reclaimed, and 
should they not succeed, the fruitful farms now covered, with 
others that will be covered, will become a fruitless lake. 

There are SINS that grow to be not only of National, but of 
International, proportions, and there are lakes of SIN once made 
that if ever dried up it is by the process of years and at the 
LOSS of all the FRUITAGE that properly belonged to the years. 

Let that one who thinks that a channel here or there is of little 
moment take one deliberate look at the Salton Sea. 

Pottle 430 

The Richmond Register several years ago printed this account 
of a man with the UNFORGIVING spirit: 

“Samuel Holmes, in Frankfort jail, was serving time for mur¬ 
der. He received a visit from his old school fellow, Lucian Young. 

“Some years before the Kentucky legislature recorded its ap¬ 
preciation of Young’s bravery in RESCUING several lives from 
a wrecked vessel, and so Young made an appeal to Governor 
Blackburn for a pardon for his schoolmate—the Governor re¬ 
lented and signed the pardon for Young’s sake. 

“With the PARDON in his pocket Young hastened to the 
prison, but before telling Holmes that he had come to make him 
a FREE man, Young said to him during a conversation: ‘Sam, 
if you were turned loose and fully PARDONED, what would be 
the first thing you would do?’ and Holmes quickly replied, T 
would go to Lancaster and KILL Judge Busley and a man who 
was a witness against me.’ 

“Lucian Young didn’t mention the pardon, but went outside 
the prison wall and tore the pardon into fragments.” 


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Pottle 429 

Judg. 16. 22.—The hair of his head began to grow. 

1 Chron. 13. 3.—We enquired not in the days of Saul. 
Luke 21. 61.—The Lord looked upon Peter. 

Prov. 4. 23.—Keep thy heart with all diligence. 

Heb. 12. 17.—He found no place of repentance. 


bottle 430 

Matt. 6. 15.—If ye forgive not, neither will your Father. 
Rom. 12. 19.—Avenge not yourselves. 

Col. 3. 9.—Ye have put off the old man. 

Gen. 4. 6.—Why is thy countenance fallen? 


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bottle 431 

Athanasius Kircher, the celebrated ASTRONOMER, had an 
acquaintance whom he much esteemed, but who was infected by 
ATHEISTIC ideas—Kircher set about his rescue. 

He first procured a globe of the HEAVENS, handsomely deco¬ 
rated and of conspicuous size, and located it in his study, and his 
friend was given an invitation to visit him. 

It happened as Kircher had planned—his friend no sooner 
observed the globe than he inquired where it came from and 
whose it was—said Kircher: “Shall I tell you, my friend, that it 
belongs to no one—that it was never made by any one, but came 
here by mere CHANCE.” The Atheist replied: “That is IM¬ 
POSSIBLE. You are jesting.” To which the astronomer replied: 
“You will not believe that this small globe originated by mere 
chance, and yet you contend that the vast heavenly bodies of 
which this is but a faint, diminutive resemblance, came into ex¬ 
istence without ORDER, DESIGN, or a CREATION!” 

The Atheist friend ultimately abandoned his skepticisms. 

Athanasius Kircher is not alone in his faith. The feeling of 
Kepler and Newton and Sir John Herschel and many other star¬ 
gazers was “the undevout astronomer is mad.” 

Pottle 432 

An unbeliever walking through the woods one day in Texas 
and reading Plato came to the word “geometrizing.” He thought, 
“If I could only see plan and order in the world I could 
BELIEVE.” 

Just at that moment he spied at his feet a little “Texas-Star.” 
Picking it up he began to count the petals. There were five. 
He counted the stamens; there were five; he counted the divi¬ 
sions at the base of the flower; there were five; then he set 
about multiplying these three fives to see how many chances 
there were of a flower being brought into existence without the 
aid of MIND and having these three fives. The chances against 
it were a hundred and twenty-five to one. And as he saw a 
multitude of these little flowers, all alike, the conviction 
deepened upon him that here was THOUGHT; DESIGN was 
back even of the Texas-Star. 

Pottle 433 

A young man in Switzerland engaged in classifying the 
hymenoptera of his native land was suddenly smitten with 
BLINDNESS. The calamity was so hopeless that marriage was 
absolutely forbidden by the father of his betrothed. 

She waited until she was twenty-one, and then, without CON¬ 
CEALMENT, she married the SCIENTIST and persuaded him to 
resume his studies. She carried on experiments under his direc¬ 
tion and soon became more skillful than he had ever been in 
watching the operation of the curious creatures. 

And the immortal treasure of Huber on Bees, a classic and a 
first authority on the subject, was the result. 


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Pottle 431 

Acts 28. 6.—After they looked they changed their mind. 
Rom. 1. 20.—His eternal power and Godhead. 

Psa. 19. 1.—The heavens declare, the firmament showeth. 
Matt. 14. 31.—Wherefore didst thou doubt? 


Pottle 432 

Acts 28. 6.—After they looked they changed their mind. 
Rom. 1. 20.—His eternal power and Godhead. 

Psa. 19. 1.—The heavens declare, the firmament showeth. 
Matt. 14. 31.—Wherefore didst thou doubt? 

Exod. 3. 14.—I Am hath sent me. 


Pottle 433 

Ruth 1. 14.—But Ruth clave unto her. 

Heb. 10. 36.—Ye have need of hold-on-to-it-iveness. 
2 Pet. 1. 5.—Add in your faith, valor. 

2 Kings 2. 10.—Determine to (time of) asking. 


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Pottle 434 

The Rev. Dr. A. J. Gordon, a prominent minister, is authority 
for the following double incident in his own experience: 

Opening his mail one morning Dr. Gordon found an appeal 
from a poor student, detailing his financial straits. 

He was reluctant to ask for aid, but did ask Dr. Gordon to 
PRAY for his deliverance from BURDENS that discouraged him. 
It was only $50—but that was a great sum for a poor student. 

The next letter whose seal he broke was from a gentleman of 
WEALTH, expressing gratitude for a service the clergyman had 
rendered him and enclosing a check for $50. In the second letter 
Dr. Gordon felt sure he saw the answer to the first, and endorsing 
the check, sent it to the young man. 

The noon mail of the same day brought a letter from a young 
colored man whose scholarship had prompted Dr. Gordon to help 
him pursue his studies. The letter told how sparingly he had 
lived—the inclosed list of expenditures demonstrated that—and 
that he had not a cent to pay his debts. 

Dr. Gordon went to the telegraph office and wrote a dispatch, 
saying he would be responsible for one half, provided a Mr. W. 
would furnish the other half—he couldn’t remember the student’s 
street number, nor the amount, and went home for the letter. 

On his way he called at a certain place to pay a bill of 
$37.50; he handed his check for the sum to the bookkeeper, who, 
on turning to the account, said: “This bill is paid, sir. You do 
not owe us anything.” “Who paid it?” asked Dr. Gordon. “I 
cannot say, only it was settled several weeks ago.” 

Dr. Gordon, surprised to find the account paid and himself 
that much better off, returned home and opened the student’s 
letter and found that his list of debts came to just $37.50, and he 
sent a check for that amount to the student. 

Pottle 435 

Perhaps we have known at times strong IMPULSE towards 
some action to which we were unaccustomed. Such a feeling 
came upon a gentleman who had lately become a Christian. 
While he was riding with another passenger in a railway car¬ 
riage he felt he must address his companion on the subject of 
religion, and looked at him so earnestly that the other looked 
up inquiringly, and then the Christian said: “Sir, are you joined 
to Christ?” A few earnest words followed. 

Before leaving he drew out a penny and OFFERED it to his 
companion. It was REFUSED, but afterwards accepted on his 
urging the offering. Then he added: “To me your salvation, my 
friend, seems as simple an act as that. Christ offers you 
ETERNAL life, but you have the OPTION of refusing or taking 
it. Which will you do?” 

Eleven years later he was greeted in the street by a stranger, 
who drew from his pocket a penny—“I have kept your penny,” 
he said, “and now that I have met you again, I want to tell you 
that that penny preached me a sermon which has brought me 
out of DARKNESS into LIGHT.” 


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Pottle 434 

James 5. 16.—Supplication availeth much. 

Acts 2. 1.—All with one accord in one place. 

Luke 11. 9.—Keep asking and it shall be given. 

Matt. 6. 6.—When thou hast shut the door. 

Jonah 2. 1.—Prayed out of the fish’s belly. 

Dan. 6. 10.—Prayed as he did aforetime. 

Psa. 107, 6.—They cried unto Jehovah in their trouble. 


Pottle 435 

Rev. 3. 20.—Behold I stand at the door and knock. 
Acts 26. 22.—Witnessing the small and the great. 
Acts 20. 20.—From house to house. 

Acts 8. 29.—Join thyself to this chariot. 

Prov. 11. 30.—He that is wise winneth souls. 

1 Cor. 15. 58.—Abounding in work for as much as. 


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Pottle 436 

The making of a strange contract was announced not long 
since in the daily papers of New York City. The parties were a 
WEALTHY man, so UGLY as to be almost repulsive, and a 
specialist, who has undertaken to make the rich man handsome, 
or at least, passable. If the specialist is successful he is to have 
fifty thousand dollars for the service. 

A preliminary experiment is to be made on a baboon. If the 
specialist can reshape the baboon’s nose, fill the hollows of his 
cheeks, and remove the forehead furrows and change the mouth, 
the rich man engages to pay twenty thousand dollars and further 
to submit himself to the process which, if successful, is to COST 
him another thirty thousand dollars. 

We are not even suggesting that there is wisdom on the part 
of the rich man in such a contract, but we are holding that there 
are things of infinitely greater value, and that even this rich man 
might, by the grace of God, obtain a better TRANSFORMATION 
than from this SPECIALIST. 

Pottle 437 

A baker living in a village not far from Quebec bought the 
butter he used from a neighboring farmer. 

One day he became SUSPICIOUS that the butter was not of 
the right weight, and for several days he weighed the butter and 
found that the rolls were gradually diminishing in weight, and 
had the farmer arrested for FRAUDULENT dealing. 

At the trial the judge said to the farmer: “I presume you have 
scales?” “Yes, of course, your honor.” “And weights, too, I 
presume?” “No, sir.” “Then how do you manage to WEIGH the 
butter which you sell?” 

“That’s easily explained, your honor,” said the farmer. “When 
the baker commenced buying his butter of me I thought I would 
get my bread of him, and it is the one-pound loaves I’ve been 
using as a WEIGHT for the butter I sell. If the weight of the 
butter is wrong he is to blame himself.” 

Pottle 438 

An old California STAGE driver was dying. His eyes were 
closed and a friend standing by observed the man move his right 
foot with a quick, convulsive jerk, and he said to him: “What is 
the matter?” The driver replied, “I am on the down grade and 
I can’t reach the brake.” 

The sensation of this stage driver is something like the sensa¬ 
tion that will come sooner or later to the man who, in youth or 
younger years, does not bring his life under a goodly measure of 
control and habituate himself to reaching the BRAKE. 

It may seem brilliant to make some of the runs down hill that 
some are making, but there will come a run that will be DISAS¬ 
TROUS when the brake, not the brake of a dream, but the real 
brake that controls life, cannot be found, and a WRECK the 
result. 


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pottle 436 

Eccl. 8. 1.—A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine. 

Phil. 3. 21.—Fashioned like unto his glorious body. 

Jude 1. 24.—Faultless before the presence of his glory. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 

Psa. 17. 15.—I shall be satisfied with thy likeness. 

Prov, 27, 17,—So a man shapeth the countenance of his friend. 


pottle 437 

Matt. 7. 3.—Why beholdest thou the mote? 

Rom. 3. 22.—No difference for all have sinned. 

2 Cor. 4. 2.—Renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. 
Eccl. 12. 14.—Every work into judgment—every secret. 
Prov. 11. 1.—A false balance is abomination. 


Pottle 438 

Rom. 1. 26.—God gave them up. 

Hos. 4. 17.—Joined to idols, let him alone. 

Gal. 5. 7.—Who ditched you? 

Lam. 3. 27.—Good to bear the yoke in youth. 

Gen. 4. 16.—Cain dwelt in the land of wandering. 


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Pottle 439 

In 1907 the greater part of the French capital experienced a 
great inconvenience for two nights through the strike of the 
electrical workmen. The city had formerly conducted the busi¬ 
ness, but had granted a concession to a company, who deprived 
the employes of certain privileges which they had enjoyed under 
the management of the city. As a result the whole number of 
thirteen hundred skilled operators went on a strike. 

There were no lights on the streets, the theaters were in 
darkness, the trains on the subways ceased to operate because of 
no electricity. The mansions of the president and the members 
of the cabinet and police headquarters were lighted only by a 
few old oil lamps and candles. There were no newspapers, for 
electric motors are installed in the printing houses. 

The stores, cafes, and restaurants had to shut down at the 
shutting down of day. There was narrow escape from a flood, 
owing to the failure of the electrical pumps which had kept the 
water down in a tunnel in course of construction on the south 
side of the Seine. 

So much of a sensation in Paris because the LIGHT was off 
for two nights, so much of inconvenience, so much of danger, 
and we very naturally think of the sensation, the inconvenience 
and the danger that would result if the shining of the Sun of 
Righteousness were to be withdrawn. 

It may help us to appreciate the blessings that come to us 
through the past and the present shining of the Lord of Glory, 
but we dare not wish for the cancellation of his light even for one 
night, though that should the more persuade us of his worth. 


pottle 440 

An old barn door that had been swinging on its rusty hinges 
for more than half a century was brought into Richmond, Indiana, 
a few months ago, from a farm west of the town, and after being 
carefully packed, was sent by express to a mansion on the banks 
of the Hudson, to the summer home of a New York multi¬ 
millionaire. It appears that the MILLIONAIRE formerly lived 
on the farm, which was owned by his parents. 

He had gone out to visit the haunts of his BOYHOOD, and on 
the barn door he beheld his own initials deeply carved in the 
door. The letters he had carved himself when he was a boy. 

“Some of the happiest days of my life, as a boy, were spent 
back of that old door,” he remarked, “and I determined, if 
possible, to secure the door on which my own knife had cut 
those three letters.” He was allowed to buy the door in memory 
of the days of YOUTH. 

It is well for a man, if at the close of life, when confronted 
with something he has done in youth, he finds a. satisfaction 
from his memories. There is apt to be so much that a man 
would gladly forget and ask God to forgive. 

The marks of youth remain; happy the man who is glad to 
see them late in life. 


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Pottle 439 

Exod. 30. 12.—Every man a ransom for his soul. 

Psa. 119. 105.—Thy word is a lamp. 

Matt. 5, 14.—Ye are the light of the world. 

John 12. 19.—The world has gone after him. 

Psa. 119. 130.—The entrance of thy word giveth light. 


pottle 440 

Exod. 12. 14.—This day for a memorial. 

Psa. 25. 7.—Remember not the sins of my youth. 
Eccl. 12. 1.—Remember thy creator in thy youth. 
Prov. 22. 6.—Train up a child, he will not depart. 


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pottle 441 

Louis: Albert Banks tells of a traveler who, as he was return¬ 
ing from Europe, listened one beautiful Sunday evening in mid¬ 
ocean to a large group of Welshmen who sang beautifully both in 
Welsh and English the great old church hymns. There were 
more than two thousand passengers on the “Oceanic.” 

Just at dark they sang “Jesus, Lover of my Soul.” After 
singing it in Welsh they repeated it in English, and just as they 
finished the line “SAFE into the haven GUIDE,” the captain on 
the bridge tapped three bells; the watchman on the first lookout 
repeated the three taps on his larger bell, and sent out over the 
decks and out over the waves the cry, “All’s well!” 

Far up in the crow’s nest, nearly a hundred feet from the 
deck, the WATCHMAN in the second lookout caught it up, “All’s 
well!” A gentleman standing upon the deck remarked: “Wouldn’t 
it be fine if every soul on this great liner could from the heart 
and for himself echo it yet again, “All’s well!” 

pottle 442 

A friend of J. Wilbur Chapman held a series of meetings in 
a northwestern city years ago and after some years returned to 
the city to greet his old friends. At the station he noticed an 
old man named James Stewart, who told him that his boy had 
gone away from HOME, promising to come back and he said: “I 
have met every train, WAITING for his RETURN.” 

Thirteen years after that time this man returned again to that 
northwestern city and James Stewart told him with trembling 
voice that the boy had not yet come. “And then I lifted up my 
eyes,” said this evangelist, “and saw one coming down from the 
train. Instinctively I felt it was the son, but the old FATHER 
had seen, too, and HASTENING forward, he threw his arms about 
him and said: ‘Thank God you have COME.’ ” This glimpse of a 
father’s love in the northwest reminds us of the Father in the 
Word of God, who waited for his son’s RETURN. 


Pottle 443 

One day three friends in Paris were taking a walk together. 
They remarked that they should like to have a luncheon, but 
unfortunately none of them had the necessary money. 

Presently one of the trio bethought himself, led his friends 
to a music publisher, and made him an offer: “Buy from us a 
SONG. This gentleman wrote the text, that one set it to music. 
He paid them fifteen francs for the song and the friends joyfully 
hastened to a restaurant. 

The author of the text was Alfred De Musset, the musician 
was Mompor, the singer Dupre, the song which was sold for 
fifteen francs, “The Andalusian Girl,” yielded the publisher forty 
thousand francs—the incident reminds us of ESAU and the sale 
of his BIRTHRIGHT. 


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pottle 441 

Amos 4. 12.—Prepare 'to meet thy God. 

Rom. 8. 17.—Heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ. 
2 Tim. 4. 6.—Ready to be offered. 

1 Cor. 15. 10.—By the Grace of God I am what I ain. 


Pottle 442 

Exod. 20. 12.—Honor thy father and thy mother. 
Luke 1. 17.—The hearts of fathers unto the children. 
Luke 15. 20.—His father saw him and ran. 


Pottle 443 

Heb. 12. 17.—He found no place of a change of mind. 
Rev. 5. 9.—They sing a new song. 


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Pottle 444 

A minister was going one Sabbath morning to his Sunday 
school and as he turned the corner he saw about a pump a party 
of little boys playing MARBLES. On seeing him they hastily 
picked up their marbles and ran away. One little fellow could not 
gather up his marbles before the minister came, and the 
minister placed his hand upon his shoulder and said: “Have you 
found all your marbles?” “No, I haven’t,” said the boy. 

“Then I’ll HELP you,” said the minister. As he did so he re¬ 
marked, “I liked to play marbles when I was a little boy very 
much, but I never played marbles on the SABBATH. 

“I am going to a place where I think you would like to be. 
Will you come with me?” Then the boy answered: “Where do 
you live?” The minister answered, and the boy said: “Why, 
that’s the minister’s house.” 

“Yes,” said the man, “I am the minister myself, and if you 
will come with me I think I can do you some good.” 

The boy said: “My hands are dirty. I can’t go.” 

“But here is a pump,” said the minister, “why not wash them?” 

“I’m so little I can’t wash and pump at the same time,” 
answered the boy. “Well, if you’ll wash, I’ll pump,” and he at 
once set to work and pumped until the boy had washed hands and 
face quite clean. 

Then the boy said: “My hands are wringing wet. I don’t 
know how to dry them.” The minister pulled out a clean hand¬ 
kerchief and offered it to the littP fellow, but he answered: “But 
it’s clean.” “Yes, but it was made to be dirtied,” was the reply; 
and so the little fellow wiped his hands and face and accompanied 
the minister to the Sunday school. 

Twenty years after as the minister was walking in the street 
of a large city a man tapped him on the shoulder and said: “You 
don’t REMEMBER me?” “No, I do not,” answered the minister. 
Then the stranger told of the game of marbles at the old pump 
stand. “Oh, I do remember,” said the minister. 

“Sir,” said the stranger, “I was that boy. I rose in business 
and on seeing you today in the street I felt bound to come to 
you and say that it was your kindness and Christian discretion 
that under God made me what I am.” 

Pottle 445 

The following parable is found in the Chinese, and speaks its 
own lesson: “It came to pass that a man went to market, having 
on his shoulder a string of seven large copper coins (Chinese 
coins are strung on strings and carried on the shoulder). 

“Seeing a BEGGAR crying for ALMS he gave the poor creature 
six of his seven coins, and then the beggar, instead of being 
GRATEFUL, slipped up behind and stole the seventh coin.” 

Yes, we have an immediate conclusion as to the man who, 
having been given six, would steal a seventh, but we shall be 
less hasty, perhaps, and less insistent on penalties when we are 
told that he who does not keep SEPARATE the SABBATH day 
after God has given six is a thief against God. 


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Pottle 444 

Dan. 12. 3.—They that turn many to righteousness. 
Prov. 11. 30.—He that is wise winneth souls. 

Gal. 6. 9.—In due season we shall reap. 

Mark 4. 28.—First the blade, then the ear, after that. 
Mark 10. 13.—They were bringing unto him. 


pottle 445 

Exod. 20. 8.—Remember the sabbath day. 

Heb. 10. 25.—Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves. 
Isa. 58. 13.—The set apart of the Lord, honorable. 


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Pottle 446 

Dr. Lorenz, the great Austrian SURGEON, was at a banquet 
in his honor. Many of the guests were drinking. The principal 
guest, however, pushed his wine aside untasted and someone 
asked him if he were a tetotaller. 

“I cannot say that I am a TEMPERANCE agitator,” said Dr. 
Lorenz, “but I am a surgeon. My SUCCESS depends upon my 
brain being clear, my muscles firm and my nerves steady. No 
one can take alcoholic liquor without BLUNTING these physical 
powers which must be kept on edge. As I am a surgeon I must 
not drink.” 


Pottle 447 

Mr. Carnegie, in his book The Empire of Business, says: 

“The first most seductive PERIL and the destroyer of most 
YOUNG men is the drinking of LIQUOR. 

“I say to you that you are more likely to fail in your career 
by acquiring the habit of drinking liquor than from any or all 
TEMPTATIONS likely to assail you. 

“You may yield to almost any other TEMPTATION and RE» 
FORM—may brace up and if not recover lost ground, at least 
remain in the race, and secure and maintain a respectable 
position. But from the insane thirst for liquor ESCAPE is almost 
impossible. I have known of few exceptions to the rule.” 

Pottle 448 

One Sunday morning an absent minded old lady walked into 
CHURCH, took a front seat and joined vigorously in the service. 

The COLLECTION basket was passed to her and putting a 
coin into it she looked about. Then her mind cleared and an ex¬ 
pression of surprise overspread her face. 

She got up and hurried down the aisle, overtook the man with 
the collection basket and whispered, “I’m in the wrong church,” 
and taking out the coin she hurried through the door. 

An incident of that sort has in it an amusing shade, but the 
truth remains as to a lingering prejudice in the minds of very 
many that does not come to the surface, as in this case, because 
they are more careful to hide the real atmospheres of the life. 

Pottle 440 

There are all sorts of ideas about SUCCESS in life about the 
man who is first as to the place of HONOR. This is amusingly 
illustrated by the expression of an old Scotchman as to the great 
Thomas Carlyle. A visitor to Ecclefechan in Dumfriesshire where 
Thomas Carlyle was born and buried, once asked a road maker 
if he knew the Carlyles. 

“I ken them a’,” was the answer, “Jock’s a doctor in London; 
Tam’s a harum-scarum sort o’ fellow that writes books, but 
Jamie—that’s his farm over there—Jamie’s the man o’ the family. 
He breeds the best swine that ever cam’ to Dumfries market.” 


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Pottle 446 

Gen. 3. 23.—Forth from the garden of Eden. 

Deut. 12. 30.—Enquire not after their gods. 

2 Sam. 3. 33.—Died Abner as a fool dieth. 

2 Kings 8. 13.—Is thy servant a dog that he should do this? 
Prov. 23. 34.—Upon the top of a mast. 


Pottle 447 

Gen. 3. 13.—The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 
Num. 23. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you out. 
Deut. 12. 30.—Enquire not after their gods. 

Judg. 2. 3.—As thorns in your sides. 

Prov. 4. 23.—Keep thy heart with all diligence. 


Pottle 448 

Isa. 32. 20.—Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters. 
Rom. 15. 28.—I will come by you into Spain. 

1 Cor. 10. 17.—We, who are many, are of one loaf. 

1 Cor. 3. 5.—Who is Paul and who is Apollos? 


Pottle 449 

Mark 6. 4.—A prophet is not without honor save in his own 
country. 

Luke 7. 32.—We have piped unto you and ye have not danced. 
Luke 19. 7.—The men who saw Jesus and Zacchams (prejudice). 


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pottle 450 

Dead in the dawn of his noble YOUNG manhood, 

Dead in his beauty, with life’s harness on; 

Dead to the work which so oft he had dreamed of; 

Dead with the daylight of boyhood scarce gone; 

Dead with his hand hardly yet on the lever, 

•Dead to ambition, to fortune, and fame; 

Dead to what promised a life of great purpose; 

Dead to affections too sacred to name; 

Dead to the hopes which upon him were centered; 

Dead to the hearts now aching instead; 

Dead to the sympathy claimed by the sorrowing; 

Dead to the tears which above him were shed; 

Dead unto all of earth’s beauty and fragrance; 

Dead unto all the endearments of home. 

O, God of the burdened, tenderly cherish 

The hearts of thy earth-children sorrowing here. 

Some griefs seem too great for human endurance, 

Some woes are too deep for the solacing tear. 

“O, Angel of Death with grief freighted pinions, 

Why to so precious a life must you come?” 

Thus crieth the woman’s heart strongly within us. 

Thus cometh the answer so tender and low: 

“Be still, question not, for I am thy Father, 

The depths of my wisdom not now canst thou know— 

Far as the sun rising is from the setting 
So far are my ways from those of thine own. 

In all thine afflictions, I, too, am afflicted, 

Thy heart feels no anguish, my heart has not known. 

“Not dead, only resting, on hillside, in valley, 

Are lips that are mute and forms that are still, 

And lives that are purer were robbed of no beauty— 

No hopes they have cherished I failed to fulfill. 

The bruised heart must bleed—e’en mine own well-beloved, 
Shed tears that were bitter at Lazarus’s tomb. 

But list to the words that may lighten the shadows 
From the grave, and dispel some of darkness and gloom; 

“Saved in the dawn of his noble young manhood; 

Saved from the care which cometh with strife; 

Saved from the failures which might have discouraged; 
Saved from the by-ways and pitfalls of life; 

Saved from all probable griefs of the future; 

Saved from all possible temptations, too; 

Saved from the skeptic’s dread power of alluring; 

Saved e’er the false could sully the true; 

Saved from the burdens which weary the shoulders; 

Saved from the wrinkles which furrow the brow; 

Saved unto infinite powers of fulfillment; 

Perfection complete, rest eternal from now.” 


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Pottle 450 

Heb. 13. 14.—Here have we no continuing city. 

Heb. 4. 2.—Not being mixed with faith. 

2 Tim. 4. 6.—I am ready to be offered. 

Phil. 3. 20.—Our citizenship is in heaven. 

2 Cor. 4. 18.—The things seen are temporal. 

1 Cor. 15. 57.—Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory. 
1 Cor. 10. 4.—The Rock that followed them was Christ. 
Rom. 8. 28.—All things work together for good to them. 
John 14. 3.—Where I am there ye shall be also. 


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Pottle 451 

In his lecture room one day the lecturing PHYSICIAN said, 
“Gentlemen, a physician’s first duty is ACCURATE observation 
and rigid ATTENTION. You are neither looking at what I am 
doing nor hearing what I am saying. I will dismiss the class.” 

The next day the doctor came into the lecture room with a 
bottle—it contained a very dirty-looking fluid. 

“Gentlemen,” he said, “I hold in my hand a little bottle of jalap. 
Of course you are aware that as PHYSICIANS we have very 
many disagreeable duties. We must, for instance, TEST such 
messes as this that we may know accurately their taste. Observe, 
I first place my finger in the bottle and then in my mouth.” The 
bottle was handed from one to another. 

When the bottle came back to the doctor he chuckled and said: 
“Gentlemen, had you REMEMBERED my remarks at the last 
lecture about ACCURATE observation you would have SAVED 
yourselves a very DISAGREEABLE experiment. An accurate 
observer could not have failed to notice that I put my forefinger 
into the bottle and my middle finger in my mouth.” 

Very much of the disagreeable in life is because there is not 
on our part an ACCURATE looking into the word of God. 

Pottle 452 

NATURALISTS discover the most beautifully colored plants 
on the highest mountains. Exposed to and nurtured by the 
keenest winds, the wildest STORMS, have sprung up lichen and 
mosses of the most rich and attractive hue. 

So on the bleak hills of ADVERSITY the Christian CHAR¬ 
ACTER is mellowed and beautified more than in the shady 
quiet vale of PROSPERITY. It is in adversity that man adds 
qualities of grace which ADORN the life of the believer—his 
natural ROUGHNESS is toned down and he is able to say: 

“Amidst the list of blessings Infinite, 

Stands this the foremost, that my heart has blessed. 

For ALL I bless thee—most for the SEVERE.” 

Pottle 453 

Dean Farrar tells us that his mother’s HABIT was every 
morning immediately after breakfast to withdraw for an hour to 
her own room and spend the hour reading the BIBLE, other 
devotional books and in MEDITATION and PRAYER. 

From that hour as from a great FOUNTAIN she drew 
STRENGTH and SWEETNESS which enabled her to remain 
unruffled by the worries and pettishness of narrow neighbors. 

He says he never saw her TEMPER disturbed nor heard her 
speak one word of ANGER or CALUMNY or idle gossip. 

Her life was strong, pure, rich and full of blessing and healing, 
and he says it was all due to the daily morning hour with God. 
Might he have said that her morning hour had much to do with 
the molding of the life of Dean Farrar, her son? Let every 
mother emphasize her own OPPORTUNITY. 


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Pottle 451 

Mark 4. 24.—He saith unto them, take heed what ye hear. 
Luke 8. 18.—Take heed therefore how ye hear. 

1 Cor. 10. 12.—Let him that standeth take heed. 

Heb. 12. 11.—Chastening—afterwards fruits of righteousness. 


pottle 452 

Ruth 1. 20.—Call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very 
bitterly with me. 

2 Kings 2. 15.—The spirit of Elijah on Elisha. 

Job 1. 9.—Doth Job fear God for naught? 

Psa. 119. 67.—Before I was afflicted I went astray. 


Pottle 453 

Josh. 9. 14.—They asked not counsel of the Lord. 

1 Kings 7. 22.—Upon the top of the pillars, lily-work. 

1 Chron. 4. 9.—Jabez more honorable than his brethren 
(prayer). 

Psa. 19. 10.—Sweeter than the droppings of the honeycomb. 

Psa. 139. 17.—How precious are thy thoughts. 

James 3. 16.—Where envy and strife is. 

Matt. 6. 6.—And when thou hast shut the door. 


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pottle 454 

The story of the EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSES is one of 
singular significance. The first Eddystone lighthouse was 
designed and built by a man named Winstanley, who placed upon 
it this PRESUMPTUOUS inscription: “Blow, O, winds! Rise, O, 
ocean! Break forth, ye elements and TRY my works.” 

In a night of STORM the sea engulfed both tower and builder. 

Another lighthouse was builded and was swallowed up. 

Then there came an ARCHITECT named Smeaton, who built 
the third Eddystone LIGHTHOUSE. He built it entirely of 
stone, making it a part of the rock FOUNDATION, so that the 
lighthouse penetrates the great ledge on which it stands, as a 
tree penetrates the soil. When it was finished Smeaton caused 
these words to be chiseled on the massive tower: “Except the 
LORD BUILD the house they labor in VAIN that build it,” and 
on the keystone was carved the words, “Laus Deo!” (praise God). 

The third lighthouse still stands—fiercest storms have not 
been able to move it and ships passing never fear lest the LIGHT 
of the Eddystone tower shall not warn them of the rocks. 

We would not say that the first lighthouse was swept away 
because of its presumptuous inscription, but rather because a 
man back of such inscription can scarcely have the HELP of 
God in his building. 

We would not say that the last Eddystone tower stands because 
of the REVERENT inscriptions of its tower and keystone, but 
the rather that the man back of such inscriptions may be 
expected to have the help of God in his building. 

Pottle 455 

The French government has lately made a successful trial of a 
plan by which the Roentgen Ray is used to detect smuggled 
articles when in packages or on the person of the smuggler. 

The plan is to have every passenger from a foreign port pass 
in front of the X-RAY apparatus and subject him to a thorough 
EXAMINATION. In this way smuggled articles can be instantly 
detected—without removing any of the clothing. 

In the trial mentioned a hundred and sixty-seven persons were 
examined in forty-five minutes—jewels and merchandise were 
found hidden, watches were discovered sewed in the lining of 
one man’s coat—in the hem of a woman’s skirt were found 
rings, a tiny jeweled locket was revealed hidden in a young 
man’s mouth underneath his tongue—under the coils of a woman’s 
hair the X-Ray showed plainly several watch chains and a 
bracelet; another SMUGGLER carried several card cases flat 
against his feet and the clasps were shown through shoes and 
stockings. One who tried to DECEIVE the X-Ray by wrapping 
gloves in linen, then in tissue paper, was caught. 

Led by Mr. Le Roux, the officials went to the post office with 
the machine and found there in envelopes and packages all sorts 
of foreign articles HIDDEN from the ordinary eye. 

There is an X-RAY that looks in upon LIFE and sees all that 
is HIDDEN away, bringing to light every SECRET thing. 


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pottle 454 

Rom. 13. 7.—Honor to whom honor. 

Psa. 127. 1.—Except Jehovah keep the city the watchman 
waketh but in vain. 

Prov. 15. 33.—Before honor goeth humility. 

1 Sam. 7. 12.—Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. 


pottle 455 

2 Pet. 2. 15.—Balaam, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. 
1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart. 

Gen. 16. 13.—Thou God seest me. 

Num. 32. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you out. 

Eccl. 12. 14.—Every work into judgment, with every secret 
thing. 


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Pottle 456 

“I was visiting,” says Arnot, a pastor of Edinburgh, “among 
my people in the Wynds and closes and went to call on Betty 
Gordon, an aged saint of God. I climbed up the winding stairs, 
having in my pocket the money for Betty’s rent for a month, 
given me that morning. At first I knocked softly, but there was 
no answer; then I KNOCKED louder, and still no answer. 

“The next morning I went back and after a little Betty came. 
‘O,’ said she, ‘is it you Mr. Arnot? I am so glad to see you. Come 
in.’ There were tears in her eyes and I said: ‘Betty, woman, 
what are you crying for?’ *0/ she said, ‘Mr. Arnot, I am so 
AFRAID of the landlord. He came yesterday and I had not the 
rent and I dinna open the door for he is a hard man.’ 

“ ‘Betty, what time did he come yesterday?’ ‘He came between 
11 and 12 o’clock. It was twenty-five minutes to 12,’ she said. 

“‘Well,’ I said, ‘It was na the landlord; it was I, and I 
brought you, Betty, this money to pay your rent.’ 

“She looked at me and said: ‘O, it was you and I heard the 
ringing and said it was the landlord and it was my own min¬ 
ister. It was my ain Lord who had sent His MESSENGER, and 
I wouldn’t let ye in.’ ” 

How many there are who “miss the rent” or other blessings 
from the LORD, because they mistake the knock at the door. 

Pottle 457 

The late Dr. Andrew A. Bonar tells of a man who once asked 
him if CONSCIENCE is not a safer guide than the Holy Spirit. 

He answered, taking out his watch, “Is not my watch better 
than the sun? Suppose,” I said, “I will tell you the hour by my 
watch and you must always take my time. That is conscience.” 

“But conscience is fallen and corrupted and so the expression 
often heard, ‘My conscience doesn’t condemn it,’ is very danger¬ 
ous and not at all a guarantee that the action is RIGHT. 

“The Holy Spirit is unfallen and uncorrupted and if absolutely 
relied upon will invariably guide aright. And in proportion as 
he is relied upon will prove a safe GUIDE.” 

Pottle 458 

Some few months ago a dinner COSTING ten thousand dollars 
was given at SAVOY Hotel, London, by Mr. Kessler, a well-known 
New Yorker, to twenty-four American guests. 

An enormous gondola was builded in one of the court yards of 
the hotel, in the center of which was the table. Surrounding 
the gondola was water on which floated real swans and ducks. 
Across this artificial lake a pontoon bridge had been erected by 
which the waiters brought the various dishes and across which a 
magnificent cake was borne to the guests on the back of an 
ELEPHANT—it was the most unique affair ever seen in London. 

Whether it was the most WISE or not can be easily determined, 
and the incident is demonstration that some, at least, who have 
great abundance are not good STEWARDS of God’s gifts. 


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pottle 456 

Rev. 3. 20.—Behold, I stand at the door and knock. 

1 Pet. 5. 7.—Casting all your anxiety upon him. 

Psa. 137. 2.—We hanged our harps upon the willows. 
Ruth 1. 20.—Call me not Naomi, call me Mara. 


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Prov. 14. 12.—There is a way that seemeth right unto a man. 
John 16. 13.—He shall guide you into all the truth. 

Acts 26. 9.—I verily thought with myself that I ought to do 
contrary. 

Heb. 3. 13.—The deceitfulness of sin. 

1 Thess. 5. 19.—Quench not the Spirit. 

Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience void of 
offense. 

Prov. 20. 27.—The spirit of a man is the lamp of Jehovah. 


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1 John 2. 16.—The pride of life is not of the Father. 

1 Tim. 6. 9.—They that will be rich, fall. 

Eph. 4. 28.—That he may have to give to him that needeth. 
Eccl. 9. 10.—Do it with thy might. 


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A number of years ago in London a group of people were 
gathered in an auction shop for an advertised sale of fine old 
antiques and curios. The auctioneer brought out an old, 
blackened, dirty-looking VIOLIN. He said: “Ladies and gentle¬ 
men, here is a remarkably fine old instrument—a genuine CRE¬ 
MONA, made by the famous Antonius Stradivarius himself. It 
is very rare, and worth its weight in gold. What am I bid?” 

They doubted the auctioneer’s statement though he explained 
that the name Stradivarius was not on some of the earlier makes. 
Five guineas in gold were bid, but no more. 

Meanwhile a man entered the shop—he was very tall and very 
slender, with very black hair, middle aged, wearing a velvet coat. 

He walked up to the counter with a peculiar sidewise step and 
picked up the violin. He dusted it with his handkerchief, changed 
the tension of the strings, held it up to his ear lingeringly, as 
though hearing something; then reached for the bow, while the 
whispered word went through the little shop, “Paganini.” 

The bow touched the strings and a soft, exquisite note came 
out filling the shop. As he played the listeners laughed for very 
delight. By and by he stopped and released from the spell of 
the music they clamored for the violin. “Fifty guineas,” “sixty,” 
“seventy,” “eighty,” they bid in hot haste and it was knocked 
down to PAGANINI himself for a hundred guineas in gold. 

And that evening Paganini held the vast audience of thousands 
under the spell of the music he drew from the old, dirty, black¬ 
ened, DESPISED violin. It took the master’s touch to reveal the 
rare VALUE and bring out the HIDDEN harmonies. 

There is much of music and harmony hidden in almost every 
life, but it takes the touch of a master to bring it forth, and it 
is a part of the DUTY of each one of us to seek to bring forth 
these HIDDEN HARMONIES. 

But let us not forget that it takes “The Master” to bring forth 
from the soul its BEST music and to PERFECT the harmonies 
that are HIDDEN in “the IMAGE of God.” 

Pottle 460 

A tourist, proud of his fertile home-country, visited the upland 
moor of Scotland. Looking out at the expanse of heather he 
somewhat contemptuously asked a Scotchman, “What do you 
raise here?” The peasant looked the tourist straight in the face 
as he answered: “Our land is rather barren, and we do not raise 
much produce, but we build SCHOOLHOUSES and CHURCHES, 
and raise MEN.” 

The richest HARVEST garnered on the fields of time is a crop 
of men, and there is no such field in which to raise men as that 
in which the schoolhouse and the church are builded side by side. 
There is no encouragement in the Word of God for ILLITERACY, 
nor for the INTELLECTUAL apart from the moral and religious. 

The history of the world thus far has proven that the wisest 
men and the most brilliant minds with few exceptions are those 
who open the Word of God and visit his SANCTUARIES. 


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pottle 459 

Gen. 1. 27.—In the image of God created he him. 

Deut. 28. 37.—A Sheni among all nations. (The Hebrew word.) 
1 Cor. 2. 14.—They are spiritually discerned. 

1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart. 


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Matt. 6. 25.—Is not the life more than food? 

2 Sam. 18. 29.—Is the young man safe? 

Dan. C. 10.—Prayed as he did aforetime. 

John 19. 5.—Behold the man. 

Heb. 6. 1.—Let us press on unto full growth. 

2 Pet. 1. 5.—Add in your faith, virtue (valor). 


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Pottle 461 

A TRADITION has come down from an early age about a 
monk who, one evening, was praying in his MONASTERY cell. 

Long and often he had knelt there, PRAYING and waiting for 
some VISION of the Christ—this time as he prayed, however, he 
heard the bell of the Monastery summoning the POOR to come 
to be FED, and calling him away to the work of feeding them. 

Fain would he have continued gazing on the vision that had 
come to him, and in prayer still have waited, but duty bade him 
go, and so at once he went. 

Having finished his work he returned, thinking sadly of the 
VISION he had LOST. But lo! on reentering his cell, the glory 
reappeared to him and as he adoringly gazed on it, the Saviour 
said: “Because thou wentest, I stayed; hadst thou stayed, I should 
have departed.” 

This tradition was scarcely an EXPERIENCE of any life of 
any age in the world’s history, and yet there is real LIFE in the 
tradition. It is a true PARABLE of every life if only we should 
know the secrets of the life-fabric. 

“Because thou wentest, I stayed; hadst thou stayed, I should 
have departed.” This is the philosophy of God’s dealings with 
the sons of men, for “the liberal soul shall be made fat.” 

It is as Goethe wrote: “The Church may wander far, but she 
must ever return to adjust her compass at the Cross.” 

The place of SACRIFICE is the place where Christ is found. 

Pottle 462 

After a fire has swept the prairie and burned off the tall grass, 
there appear, here and there, as far as the eye can see, the 
whitened skeletons of animals that have PERISHED. 

A skull or a hoof may lie at your feet and primitive traces that 
have been covered are REVEALED by the scourge of flame and 
you read unwritten HISTORY in that which is brought to light. 

An expanse of burned prairie is one of the truest TYPES of the 
JUDGMENT time. The skeletons of a dead past will be discovered, 
the secure SECRETS of years will be exposed and the first 
WEAVINGS of life, that so much determine its warp and woof, 
will be known—it will be revealed by FIRE. 

Pottle 463 

Looking down fathoms below the surface into the dark shafts 
where the miners are at work you will see a bright LIGHT. 

You may guess that it is one of the miners’ lamps, and yet you 
will question if a miner’s lamp would make so clear a light; 
but it is not a miner’s light, it is a star shining in the heavens 
immediately above the shaft—it is mirrored in the BLACKNESS 
and you see heaven’s star in earthen shaft. 

And so into earth’s darkness shines the day-star, Jesus. And 
we may truthfully say that the deeper the darkness, the more 
heavy the providence, the brighter shines the star for the one— 
for every one—who will take time to look. 


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Pottle 461 

Gen. 4. 9.—Am I my brother’s keeper? 

Isa. 58. 6.—Is not this the fast that I have chosen? 
John 13. 15.—I have given you an example. 

1 John 4. 20.—He who loveth God, love his brother. 


Pottle 462 

1 Cor. 3. 13.—The fire shall try every man’s work. 

Num. 32. 23.—Be sure your sin will find you out. 

Eccl. 12. 14.—Every work into judgment, with every secret. 
Isa. 28. 20.—The bed is shorter—the covering narrower. 


Pottle 463 

Psa. 23. 4.—Yea though I walk through the valley. 

Psa. 119. 105.—Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. 

2 Pet. 1. 19.—Until the day dawn and the day-star arise in our 
hearts. 

Rev. 22. 16.—The bright and morning star. 


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When the Miserere is played in a chapel in Rome the music 
begins with all the lights brightly burning. As it continues its 
WAILING notes, one light after another goes out, music closes 
with its SAD strains filling the air and in utter darkness. 

This is the life history, the hidden EXPERIENCE, of the self- 
centered soul. One light after another will go out and the 
strains of what is called music will die out in the utter darkness. 

The Miserere is not in keeping with a church of Jesus Christ. 
It is only in keeping with that which is a gateway to the regions 
of the lost, and the thought of Rev. A. C. Dixon is the ideal type 
of a really Christian life. He says: “If I were pope for a day I 
would change that scene in the Roman chapel. I would begin a 
Hallelujah chorus in the dark and as its HAPPY notes floated 
out I would light one jet, and as the music became sweeter I 
would light another, and as it grew sweeter and sweeter I would 
light a third and a fourth, and keep on lighting jet after jet, until 
the finale would come in a blaze of glorious light.” 

And what an appropriate substitute a “Hallelujah” chorus 
would be for the Miserere in the church of the conquering Christ. 

Let us feel that since our lives are Christian the MISERERE 
is not worthy of a place in life’s music, not even in life’s saddest, 
dreariest day, and that a “Hallelujah” chorus, with jet after jet 
turned on from year to year, is the only music for life’s chapel 
that shall properly honor that One who came to bring heaven 
and heaven’s HARMONY into the world in which we live. 

Pottle 465 

One day the bathing place of a popular seaside resort was the 
center of an exciting scene. A daring swimmer who had out¬ 
distanced the rest exhausted his strength and was unable to 
swim back as he breasted the outgoing wave, and it seemed as 
if the man’s life would be the forfeit for his INDISCRETION. 

An experienced SAILOR saw the DANGER and plunging into 
the water with strong, swift strokes, he soon reached the side 
of the drowning man. The anxious watchers saw the man seize 
his rescuer who, with apparent heartlessness, thrust him off, and 
swam a short distance away from him. 

After the people on the shore were wrought into a frenzy be¬ 
cause of this indifference, the rescuer having waited until the 
man’s strength was utterly spent and he was about to sink, then 
seized him and bore the unstruggling body to the shore. 

That which they misunderstood and had been so indignant 
over was explained when the sailor said: “I could not SAVE 
him while he STRUGGLED. I had to wait until he lost con¬ 
sciousness and ceased struggling to save him and mys'elf too. 
Then it was easy, and it was the only possible way.” 

It is after we have given up all hope of saving ourselves and 
all thought that our own strength can be used in our rescue, only 
then can that One who looks out into the surfs of sin with a 
purpose for rescue, only then can the sailor Christ bring us back 
to the shores of life eternal. 


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pottle 464 

Col. 1. 27.—Christ in you the hope of glory. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the Spirit is joy (life-refreshment). 
Psa. 98. 5.—With the harp and the voice of melody. 

Phil. 3. 20.—Our citizenship is in heaven. 

Titus 2. 13.—Looking for the glorious appearing. 


pottle 465 

1 Cor. 3. 15.—Saved, yet so as by fire. 

Jonah 2. 1.—Prayed out of the fish’s belly. 

Psa. 19. 13.—Keep back from presumptuous sin. 
Matt. 7. 14.—Few there be that find it. 

Luke 18. 13.—God be merciful to me a sinner. 


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Pottle 466 

A building was being torn down and a common laborer, who 
was noted for his lack of intelligence, was set to pull at a rope 
attached to the top of the wall. 

“Do you think,” a passer-by asked, “that you are going to pull 
that thick wall down that way?” The man continued his tugs 
as he replied: “It doesn’t seem so to me, but I guess the boss 
knows what he is about.” Aften an hour’s pulling the wall began 
a vibratory response and at last fell down. It had been under¬ 
mined, and the man who gave the order knew that it would be, 
although the man who pulled at the rope did not know. 

It is not always the most INTELLIGENT who are open to the 
ways of OBEDIENCE and so to the way of SALVATION, we need 
to follow the example of this laborer who, in his unintelligent- 
intelligence, kept tugging at the rope. 

Pottle 467 

A climbing plant called Sampal is now used by the Malays as 
a REMEDY for the OPIUM HABIT. 

The American Consul-General at Singapore reports that since 
the use of the remedy has spread in the Federated Malay States 
the importation of opium has been reduced from eighty to fifty 
chests per month. W. E. Harley says that he has made inquiries 
of many persons who have used the remedy and they all declare 
that they have been cured of the OPIUM habit, and mentions one 
man who had been a smoker of opium for twenty-eight years. 

This plant remedy is a “God-send” to the poor opium fiend. 

We are minded of God’s MIRACULOUS REMEDY for sin. If 
the opium-smoking Malay has reason to rejoice in the knowledge 
of the sampal plant, much more should the man in sin or his 
friend rejoice in the offered CURE that comes in the Son of God. 

Pottle 468 

John B. Sleeman, who has made an extended journey through 
Japan, the Flowery Kingdom, states that at Kyoto he saw an 
AGED PILGRIM, with a great pack on his back, making his 
way toward the temple entrance. Mr. Sleeman stopped him and 
questioned him about his JOURNEYINGS. The pilgrim said 
he had started from the southernmost portion of Japan a year 
and a half before and had traveled nearly the whole length of 
the empire, and was now on his way home, a total distance up to 
the time Mr. Sleeman saw him of about four thousand miles. 
On his journey he had visited hundreds and possibly thousands of 
temples and SHRINES and had been assisted on his way by 
gifts of food and money. It is thus that the Oriental, without 
the knowledge of Christ, seeks to win his way through the gates 
into the better land of the life beyond. 

Beyond expression it is a PITIABLE condition, even for the 
years of YOUTH, but when its hand still presses down upon the 
OLD we begin to think that we are too slow in preaching the 
good tidings. 


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pottle 466 

John 15. 14.—Ye are my friends if ye do. 

1 Sam. 15. 23.—Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. 

1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou an ensample (as an engraver) in faith. 
Gen. 20. 11.—Surely the fear of God is not in this place. 


pottle 467 

2 Cor. 9. 15.—Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. 
1 Cor. 6. 19.—Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. 
Rom. 1. 16.—The power of God unto soundness. 

Mark 9. 45.—If thy foot offend thee cut it off. 

Psa. 65. 9.—The river of God is full of water. 


pottle 468 

Rev. 22. 17.—Let him that heareth say, Come. 
Mark 16. 15.—Preach to every creature. 

Lev. 13. 45.—He shall cry, Unclean, unclean. 
Ezek. 33. 6.—His blood at the watchman’s hand. 


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In an old coal mine at Foustwell, about twelve miles from 
Johnstown, Pa., on Friday afternoon, April 26, 1907, seven men 
were at work removing the pillars of coal from the mine. 

About 2 o’clock a shot broke an opening into an abandoned 
mine and let a large body of water into the mine in which they 
were at work—they fled for their lives before the flood and 
ESCAPED to a higher heading, where they were imprisoned. 

They were in charge of Mike Boyla, who acted as leader of the 
party and by his BRAVERY brought the men through their 
terrible experience. The only hope for them was in having the 
water pumped out, and that would take considerable time. 
Boyla at once husbanded the resources of the men. All lamps 
but one were put out, and thus they were able to have some light 
until they were RESCUED. This was a vital fact, for the 
black DARKNESS, together with the terrifying noises produced 
by the surging waters, might easily have driven them insane. 

There was no food in their dinner baskets, and possible starva¬ 
tion added its terror to the situation. By tapping on the com¬ 
pressed air pipes they were able to give and receive signals, and 
thus inspire the RESCUERS AND CHEER themselves. 

In the meantime the company was putting forth every effort 
to empty the mines. The largest pumps were set to work and 
were kept working day and night. Attempts were made on 
Tuesday morning to reach the men, but the water was still up 
in one part of the mine against the roof. Later in the day two 
men were able to wade and swim through and found the men, 
but it was not until one o’clock on Wednesday morning, after 
four and a half days, that they could be removed. 

It belongs to the WISDOM as well as to the HUMANITY of 
life for us to ENTHUSIASTICALLY interest ourselves in the 
PHYSICAL life of friend or neighbor and to put forth 
STRENUOUS and long continued effort for their RESCUE. 

HAPPIER would we be ourselves and HAPPIER many an 
unrescued life near us if there was some of the same interest and 
effort put forth in RESCUING them from SIN. 



ottle 470 


Queen Victoria herself TAUGHT a Bible class made up of 
the CHILDREN of the SERVANTS in Buckingham Palace. 

And we are told that in her Scottish home the queen and her 
people took the holy communion together, her majesty passing 
the cup on to the HUMBLEST who sat by her side. 

No wonder that a Scottish highlander when told of these facts 
said, “Did she do that? Isn’t she a woman a man would die for?” 

There was One, some nineteen hundred years ago, who came to 
TEACH queens and children and servants—One who HUMBLED 
himself even unto the cross that he might sit at the communion 
table with the twelve and might “drink it new with them in the 
Father’s kingdom,” when each of us are privileged to sit with 
him in his heavenly home as one of that heavenly company. 

Isn’t he a MAN a man would die for? 


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Rev. 14. 11.—The smoke of their torment forever and ever. 

Rev. 3. 16.—Because thou art lukewarm, I will spew thee out. 
Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit of the Spirit is love (life-reach). 

Luke 19. 41.—When he saw the city he wailed over it. 

Matt. 11. 12.—The enthusiastic take it by enthusiasm. 

Jer. 17. 9.—The heart is deceitful and desperately sick. 

Luke 17. 32.—Remember Lot’s wife. 


Pottle 470 

Phil. 2. 7.—Counted it not a prize, but humbled himself. 

John 4. 9.—How is it that thou askest drink of me? 

Psa. 8. 4.—What is man that thou art mindful of him? 

2 Kings 3. 11.—Elisha, who poured water on the hands of 
Elijah. 


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Pottle 471 

There is an old Dutch picture of a little CHILD dropping a 
cherished TOY from its hands, and at first sight its action seems 
unintelligible until, at the corner of the picture, you see a white 
dove winging toward the EMPTIED outstretched hands. 

Similarly we are prepared to forego a good deal of what may 
be honestly called toy-life when once we catch sight of the dove- 
like spiritual. And this is the right way to reach CONSECRA¬ 
TION and SURRENDER. Dwell on the receiving side. Keep in 
mind the old Hebrew word for consecration, “to FILL the hand.” 


pottle 472 

Henry Varley, the great English apostle of purity, says: “I 
remember a gentleman who took exception to an address upon the 
words of God concerning JEW and Gentile, that both are GUILTY 
before God. I remarked: “There is no DIFFERENCE.” 

My friend replied: “Do you mean to say there is no difference 
between an HONEST man and a dishonest one—between an in¬ 
temperate man and a sober one?” “No,” I remarked, “I did not 
affirm that there was no room for comparison in such cases. 

“But my position is that if two men were standing here, one 
an intemperate and the other a sober man, I should say of the one 
“This is an intemperate SINNER, the other is a sober sinner.” 
He answered: “Well, I don’t like such teaching.” 

I replied: “Then I will make some concession. I will admit 
there are ‘superior sinners’ and you are a ‘superior sinner.’ I 
shall not soon forget,” says Mr. Varley, “my friend’s expression 
of countenance.” 


pottle 473 

There is in a Russian palace a famous “SALOON OF Beauty,” 
wherein are hung over eight hundred and fifty P9rtraits of 
young maidens. These pictures were painted by Count Rotari, 
for Catharine the II, the empress. 

The artist made journeys through the fifty provinces of Russia 
to find models. In each of these superb portraits there is said 
to be a curiously expressed COMPLIMENT to the royal patron. 

In each picture may be detected some delicate reference to the 
empress—here a feature of Catharine appears—there an attitude 
is reproduced—some favorite adornment or environment—some 
jewel, fashion, flower, style of dress, or manner of life, some 
peculiar characteristic of the empress—just as many silent 
tributes to her beauty or her taste as there are portraits. 

So inventive and ingenious is the spirit of human FLATTERY 
when it seeks to glorify another, breaking its FLASK of praise 
at the FEET of earthly monarch. 

How like this should be the compliment of every Christian to 
the Christ, as in our life-portrait we produce some act, some 
principle of his, giving him PREEMINENCE. 


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Pottle 471 

Heb. 12. 2.—Every weight and sin by looking. 

Phil. 3. 7.—These I counted loss for Christ. 

Acts 19. 19.—Brought their books and burned them. 
Luke 10. 39.—Mary who sat at the Lord’s feet. 

Exod. 4. 2.—What is that in thy hand? 


Pottle 472 

Rom. 3. 22.—There is no difference. 

John 3. 7.—Ye must be born again. 

Luke 18. 13.—God be merciful to me, the sinner. 
Jer. 17. 9.—The heart of man is desperately sick. 
Gen. 7. 1.—Come thou into the ark. 


Pottle 473 

Col. 1. 18.—He might have the preeminence. 

2 Cor. 3. 18.—Changed into the same image. 
John 13. 15.—I have given you an example. 

Isa. 58. G.—Is not this the fast that I have chosen? 
Song 5. 10.—Chiefest among ten thousand. 

2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing. 



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Pottle 474 

A ship was once wrecked on the coast of Ireland. The captain 
was a careful one and the weather had not been so severe as to 
explain the wide distance to which the vessel had swerved from 
her course. 

The ship went down, hut so much of interest attached to the 
DISASTER that a diving-bell was sunk. 

Among other portions of the vessel which were examined was 
the COMPASS, which was swung on the deck; inside the com¬ 
pass-box was detected a bit of steel, which proved to be the 
SMALL point of the blade of a pocket-knife. 

It then became known that the day before the WRECK a sailor 
had been sent to clean the compass and had used his pocket- 
knife in the process, unconsciously breaking off the point of the 
blade. 

That bit of knife blade exerted its INFLUENCE on the 
compass, deflecting the needle and practically WRECKING the 
vessel. 

Even one trifling SIN, small as a broken knife point, is often¬ 
times the explanation of a deflected and wrecked life. 

Pottle 475 

The verses below were written on a hospital bed in New York 
City by Mrs. Annie Rhea Wilson, who gives with them this 
explanation: “I heard this little incident in the White-field 
Chapel, in London. The preacher told it as what he had himself 
seen and heard on a trip to Palestine.” 

A stranger once, in Syria, saw 
An old sheepfold without a door, 

A square enclosed by rough stone wall, 

An opening, and nothing more. 

He asked in wonder, “Where’s the door?” 

A Syrian answered his surprise, 

“The shepherd is the door himself; 

Just in that opening he lies.” 

No wolf, that prowling through the night, 

To find a place that he may leap 

And enter to devour, can pass 

This door and shepherd of the sheep. 

No lamb, in foolish restlessness 
Or terror, waking from its sleep 

To wander from the fold, can pass 
This door and shepherd of the sheep. 

So Jesus, by thy parable, 

Thou art the SHEPHERD and the DOOR; 

Keep out our deadly ENEMY, 

Keep in thy SHEEP forevermore. 


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Pottle 474 

Gal. 5. 7.—Ye did run well, who ditched you? 

Luke 17. 32.—Remember Lot’s wife. 

1 Cor. 11. 28.—Let a man examine himself. 

Acts 24. 16.—I work myself up to have a conscience. 
Song 2. 15.—Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines. 
Gen. 3. 6.—She took of the fruit and did eat, and gave. 


bottle 475 

Psa. 23. 1.—Jehovah is my shepherd. 

John 10. 7.—Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door. 
Gen. 7. 16.—And God shut him in. 


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Pottle 476 

W. B. GODBEY tells us that during two of his visits in 
London he went to the CROWN room in the tower of London, and 
there saw all the CROWNS of the British monarchs from William 
the Conqueror, the founder of the empire, to Queen Victoria—the 
CROWNS of eight centuries. There were a pyramid of glittering 
gold and gorgeous gems worth billions of dollars and GUARDED 
by a British soldiery, which was the sine qua non to prevent 
anyone capturing wealth enough to justify such an adventure. 

As he walked about this gorgeous pile of gems and gold he 
tells us that he thought of the Crown awaiting the heroic 
SAINTS in glory, and congratulated himself exultantly in this 
soliloquy: “My Crown outshines them all.” 

Happy indeed is the man or woman who in the presence of 
Crowns and Crown diamonds turns intuitively to such soliloquy. 

Pottle 477 

Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, in a sermon on the Twelve Gates, 
gives this thought: “I am sure there is some -meaning in the 
fact that the GATES are all of Pearl. 

“Do you know the history of Pearls? Humanly speaking, it 
is the history of SUFFERING. It is said that the PEARLS are 
formed by the intrusion of some foreign substance between the 
mantle of the mollusk and its shell. This is a source of irritation, 
of suffering and pain, and a substance is thrown around that 
which has intruded itself, and thus the pearl is formed.” 

Thus every gate is a gate of suffering, and suggests the one 
condition of entering. Through any gate, “if so be, we suffer with 
him.” 


Pottle 473 

If you have ever visited Niagara Falls you will have noticed, 
here and there, sign boards with words like these: “Do not 
VENTURE in DANGEROUS places.” These signs are supposed 
to be in places of danger, but you likely will have seen one such 
sign where no danger could be seen. 

Had you asked the guard he would have told you that the place 
was very dangerous, and should you still insist on your view, the 
guard would possibly relate this story: 

A very few years ago a young married couple were visiting the 
Falls, had taken luncheon with them, and at this point, far up 
from the main Falls, had concluded to eat their luncheon. Not 
having any water with them, the young bride went down with a 
bucket and stepped out on to the rock that there projects into 
the stream; she dipped in the bucket, when the undertow took 
hold of the bucket, and with it pulled her into the water—she 
was never seen again, and so they placed this DANGER sign. 

It is the habit of the guard to WARN you that there is the 
more danger because there cannot be seen a ripple on the 
surface to suggest the possibility of danger. 

So oftentimes in life, the greatest dangers are hidden. 


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Pottle 476 

Prov. 4. 23.—Keep thy heart with all diligence. 

Ezra 8. 29.—Watch ye; keep and weigh at Jerusalem. 
1 Cor. 9. 25.—To obtain a corruptible crown. 

Rev. 2. 10.—I will give him a crown of life. 


Pottle 477 

Rom. 8. 17.—If so be we suffer with him. 

Mark 15. 25.—And they crucified him. 

Rev. 21. 21.—And the twelve portals were twelve pearls. 

John 7. 53.—And, on the one hand, they went every man unto 
his own house—but Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. 


Pottle 478 

Josh. 2. 19.—Whosoever shall go out of the doors. 

Judg. 16. 21.—He did grind in the prisonhouse. 

Prov. 27. 12.—A prudent man seeth—but the simple. 

Num. 35. 26.—But if the manslayer go beyond the border of his 
city of refuge. 


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Pottle 479 

What will be by far the most powerful TELESCOPE ever 
employed to glean from the heavens their secrets is being built 
for the Carnegie Institution’s new solar observatory upon Mount 
Wilson, in southern California. There the atmosphere is more 
transparent and serene that at any other observatory on earth. 

In this great instrument the magnifying reflector will be 
eight and one-third feet in diameter. This concave disk will be 
so large that if placed on edge a half-grown boy standing on the 
shoulders of a tall man will be about able to touch its topmost 
rim. The block of glass from which this light gatherer is to be 
ground weighs four and one-half tons and measures thirteen 
inches in thickness. Four years will be required for molding, 
grinding, and polishing it, and the great mirror, with its several 
auxiliary reflectors, will be finished in 1911 or 1912, will cost 
$45,000, and is the gift of John D. Hooker, a philanthropist of 
Los Angeles. 

The completed telescope will have the power to bring the 
moon image within fifty miles of the earth, so that an object on 
the moon half as long as the Capitol at Washington and one-third 
as high as the Washington monument will be discernable. 

In other words, were our sky scrapers and other large 
structures duplicated on the moon, they would be perceptible. 

So enormous is the light-gathering power of this great mirror 
that the full image of the moon would blind the observer at the 
eye-piece, and the sun would utterly destroy the instrument itself; 
hence the reflector can be used only for night observation, being 
turned upon portions of the moon and upon stars and nebulae. 

Throughout each day a refrigerating plant will cool the great 
domed observatory in which this lens and its fifty-foot tube are 
to be stored and will maintain them at a safe temperature, thus 
preventing contraction and expansion of the glass, and a conse¬ 
quent warping of the image or cracking of the silvered surface. 

So do we bring the heavens nearer year by year as we look 
longer at them; and so do we bring heaven nearer year by year 
as we look through the great light-gathering reflector, the great 
Word of God, and he who sees but little this year will see more 
next year, and much in after years. 

pottle 480 

An Irish CONVICT from his cell caught the strains of a gospel 
song from the lips of Sankey as he sang in an adjoining building, 
and unknown to himself SANKEY had won a soul. 

A trooper chaplain, now living in western Canada, was 
PRAYING with a companion on the floor of a van during the 
South African War and underneath the wagon lay a soldier; he 
awoke and listened, and through the INFLUENCE of the words 
he found Christ, and so the companion and the soldier were both 
won by the same message, and God is giving proof in thousands 
of instances that he who works in this vineyard is to reckon that 
one may chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight, 
for it is God that giveth the increase. 


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Pottle 479 

Gen. 1. 16.—The stars also. 

Psa. 19. 1.—The heavens declare—the firmament showeth. 

Eccl. 12. 14.—Every work into judgment, with every secret. 
Luke 8. 17.—For nothing is hid that shall not be made 
manifest. 

Gen. 16. 13.—Thou God seest me. 

Horn. 1. 20.—By the things that do appear. 

1 Cor. 13. 12.—Now we see through a glass darkly, but then. 

1 Cor. 11. 28.—Let a man examine himself. 

1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou an ensample (as an engraver). 


pottle 480 

Judg. 5. 20.—The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. 
2 Sam. 8. 14.—And after that David smote (victory). 

Prov. 27. 17.—So a man shapeth the countenance of a friend. 
Rom. 1. 16.—The power of God unto salvation. 

Rom. 15. 28.—I will come by you into Spain. 


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Pottle 481 

In the city of Newark, N. J., about the year 1892, there lived a 
minister in whose home was a little son, just able to crawl about 
the floor. This little fellow had been taught a SERMON, and he 
preached it repeatedly to those who came into the house. The ser¬ 
mon was not only startling but it was exceedingly instructive. 

Had you gone to the home you would likely have been taken to 
the dining room by the preacher-father and there have listened 
to the sermon by the little PREACHER-son. 

The little fellow would be put into his high chair, his feet 
pressed closely against the wall and his back to the audience, 
then the sermon began. The signal for the sermon was the 
word “Push” from the father, and the little fellow would shoot 
out from the wall, and you held your breath as you feared the 
little fellow would hit the floor in his fall, but the father who 
gave the signal was there, and neither boy nor chair reached the 
floor, and laughing and crowing the little fellow would be cradled 
in father’s arms, and the sermon was finished. 

Oh, man, be a boy again, and when God gives the signal do 
you only obey and push and it will be the part of the heavenly 
Father to see that you are KEPT from FALLING. 

pottle 482 

At the confluence of the rivers Rhone and Arve there begins a 
BATTLE between mud and clearness. The RHONE is clear, 
while the ARVE is muddy, and this CONFLICT continues for 
miles, until the mud DEFEATS the crystal clearness. 

Let every pure soul take WARNING from the MUDDY Rhone. 
Two lives cannot be ASSOCIATED except the dirt of one is found 
in the other; occasionally the reverse is also true. 

It takes a superhuman soul to walk in the midst of SINS 
without being contaminated. What sort of a stream are you, a 
polluted and polluting one, or a pure and purifying one? 

Pottle 483 

A man was once asked by Dr. Torrey if he would not become a 
Christian. He replied: “I am an INFIDEL.” “Why are you an 
infidel?” was the query. “Because the Bible is full of contradic¬ 
tions.” “Well, if the Bible is full of CONTRADICTIONS, please 
show me one.” “Well, there is one in the book of Psalms.” He 
was handed a Bible and began looking for the Psalms in the back 
part of the New Testament, and Dr. Torrey had to find the 
Psalms for him. He fumbled with the leaves for a while, and 
said: “If I had my Bible here I could show it to you.” 

“Will you bring your Bible tonight and meet me here at the 
close of the meeting?” The infidel promised, but did not put in 
an appearance. Months afterward, in another city, one of the 
workers in the meeting introduced Mr. Torrey to a man as one 
who says the BIBLE is full of CONTRADICTIONS. Mr. 
Torrey looked into his eyes and said: “You are the man who 
LIED to me.” He winced and said with downcast face, “Yes.” 


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Pottle 481 

Matt. 18. 3.—Become as little children. 

Acts 2. 39.—Unto you and to your children. 

Heb. 11. 1.—Faith is assurance, a conviction. 

Deut. 33. 27.—Underneath are the everlasting arms. 


Pottle 482 

Josh. 2. 19.—Whosoever shall go out of the doors. 

Luke 21. 61.—The Lord turned and looked upon Peter. 
Luke 17. 32.—Remember Lot’s wife. 

2 Cor. 7. 1.—From filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 
Col. 3. 9.—Ye have put off the old man. 

James 1. 27.—Unspotted from the world. 


Pottle 483 

Dan. 5. 27.—Weighed in the balances and found wanting. 

1 Cor. 1. 20.—Where is the joint-seeker of this world? 

Rev. 22. 18.—If any man add—if any man take away. 

2 Tim. 3. 13.—Evil men and seducers wax worse and worse, 
deceiving. 

2 Tim. 3. 16.—Every scripture is inspired and is profitable. 


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Lottie 484 

In one of the large iron works near Pittsburg many men were 
employed about the great blast furnaces. On a platform ninety- 
six feet from the ground three men were employed in charging 
the furnaces, and on the platform at this particular place one 
of the men had tacked up a motto that he had secured at some 
gospel meeting. It was large and printed in colors, and these 
were the words: “O, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed 
is the man that TRUSTETH in him.” The motto was used as a 
target to spit at by the men and soon became almost illegible. 
It was also the mark of many ribald and BLASPHEMOUS 
words. 

One day the DEADLY gas that issued from the top of the 
furnace and has to be kept burning in order to destroy its deadly 
qualities, became extinguished, and two of the men nearest it 
inhaled the unburnt gas and perished before assistance could 
reach them. The third man had one match, and the chance of 
his being able to ignite the gas in the big escape pipe was as 
next to nothing. In DESPAIR he glanced about him and his 
eyes fell upon the much-abused text. Like a flash a VOW was 
formed that he would‘give himself to God if that match should 
be the means of saving his life. He lighted it, reached out and 
cast it into the gas pipe, and in the same moment fell uncon¬ 
scious beside his two comrades. A little later the elevator and 
the gas was found burning. Two of the men were dead, but the 
third lived to carry out his vow. 

Does ever a BLASPHEMOUS soul face DEATH but he loses 
his BRAVADO and his very loins faint? How MERCIFUL is 
God that even one such blasphemous soul should find a second 
for a VOW and future days in which to perform it. 


Pottle 485 

Rowland Hill used to tell this story himself: “People say when 
I PREACH the Gospel very EARNESTLY, ‘How EXCITED Mr. 
Hill gets!’” Said he: “I was walking through Wotton-under- 
Edge the other day and saw some men digging gravel. All of a 
sudden the earth gave way and buried two or three of the men. 
I ran off as fast as my old legs would carry me, and I SHOUTED, 
‘Help! Help! Help!’ But people did not say, ‘Poor old Mr. 
Hill is getting dreadfully EXCITED!’ Oh, no, he might be as 
excited as he pleased when men’s lives were in danger. But 
when a man’s soul was in danger the proper thing would be to 
say to him, and very quietly, ‘My dear friend, unless something 
shall interpose you shall one of these days become somewhat 
different from what you are now, and it will not be quite so 
well for you in another world as perhaps you might desire.’ 
What a vein of INCONSISTENCY is found in almost every one 
of every multitude. Excited! yes, but not excited if we are 
saving the body and not RESCUING the soul. 


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Pottle 484 

1 Cor. 3. 15.—Saved, yet so as by fire. 

Jonah 2. 1.—Prayed out of the fish’s belly. 
Amos 4. 12.—Prepare to meet thy God. 

Eccl. 5. 4.—Pay that which thou hast vowed. 


Pottle 485 

Rev. 3. 16.—Because thou art lukewarm I will spew thee out. 
Rom. 12. 11.—Fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. 

Matt. 11. 12.—The enthusiastic take it by enthusiasm. 

Matt. 8. 12.—The weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

Isa. 58. 1.—Lift up thy voice like a trumpet. 


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Lottie 486 

Len G. Broughton, the noted Evangelist of Atlanta, Ga., and 
pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle, tells us of his CONVERSION, 
which beautifully illustrates FAITH. 

He had been seeking for light from one and another, but could 
not see the WAY. He was a lad of eleven or twelve years, living 
in the mountain regions, and it was during a protracted meeting. 
Finally his teacher came to talk with him and he candidly told 
her how he was troubled. She tried to help him with words like 
these: “You see, Len, it is like this, I have this book and you 
want it—” but answers Len, “I don’t want it.” The teacher said, 
“But let us imagine you do want it.” But Len would not consent 
to imaginings, and in answer he said: “But I don’t want it! 
•Get something I do want.” The teacher thought a moment, then 
went and brought her beautiful leather-bound Bible, such a 
Bible as was not so common in those days, and Len had never 
seen its like; his heart beat faster at the very prospect. 

Then she said: “Len, if you will take this Bible I will give it 
to you to be your very own.” The boy put his hand on the 
Bible, and said: “It’s mine,” and almost that instant his eyes 
opened and he saw the way of FAITH and entered it, and his 
first journey was to hasten home, to tell his mother that he had 
taken Jesus. That night he made his public PROFESSION. 

What a perfect illustration this is of FAITH. 

Pottle 487 

Benares or, as it is called by the Hindus, “Kasi, the Splendid,” 
furnishes a better example of Hinduism than the HINDU prophets 
in America, or the idealism of its literature. 

Benares is the HOLY city of the Cult. Fifteen hundred temples 
are counted and thousands of its priests grovel in the filth of 
livid grottoes, filch from the pilgrim and dispense INDUL¬ 
GENCES. Here is the most SACRED well in all India, filled 
from the Ganges and cleaned only once a year. In it the Hindu 
people bathe for PURIFICATION. The filth is unspeakable. 

Pottle 488 

In the gallery of the Vatican, at Rome, there hangs a work of 
art which stands foremost among others there and at the head 
of all the oil PAINTINGS in the world. It is the TRANSFIGU¬ 
RATION by Raphael, and as the artist bent his might upon it 
the splendid vision was produced, but as the last lines were 
almost done God called the painter, and they hung his picture 
above his bier, its colors still wet upon the canvas. 

Raphael had not taken the canvas painting with him, but who 
shall say that on the canvas of his life there was not the counter¬ 
part of that which hung above his bier, and this he carried with 
him to have it retouched and perfected by the transfiguring 
Christ? Paint thou the transfigured Christ upon thy life, and do 
it by looking at the transfigured colors thou shalt paint and 
form on the lives of others; so save them and thyself. 


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pottle 486 

Heb. 4. 2.—Did not profit them, not being mixed with faith. 
Heb. 11. 1.—Faith is assurance of (the attainment of) the 
hoped for. 

2 Tim. 1. 12.—I know he is able to keep my deposit. 

John 3. 16.—That whosoever believeth might have. 




Pottle 487 

Heb. 10. 22.—Having our bodies washed in pure water. 

2 Cor. 7. 1.—Filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 

Zech. 3. 4.—Take away the filthy garments from off him. 


Pottle 488 

Jude 1. 24.—Faultless before the presence of his glory. 

Phil. 3. 21.—Fashioned like unto his glorious body. 

2 Cor. 3. 18.—Changed into the same image from glory to glory. 
John 3. 30.—He must increase, but I must decrease. 

Mark 9. 3.—As no fuller on earth can white. 


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pottle 489 

There is an old legend of a saint who lived such a godly life 
THAT the angels came down from heaven to see the man and 
LEARN his SECRET. After studying him for some time they 
besought the Lord to give him the POWER to work miracles, the 
saint to CHOOSE his work. He refused the POWER to HEAL the 
sick, leaving that to God; the leading of WANDERERS he left 
to the angels; but he CHOSE to do GOOD without knowing it. 

And so his SHADOW falling behind him, or on either side, 
brought LIFE and HEALTH to all it touched. It is the right- 
hand secret EFFORT that works most and greatest MIRACLES. 

Pottle 490 

Dwight L. Moody believed implicitly in God’s POWER to 
answer PRAYER, and the Rev. W. J. Harsha tells of this incident. 
He says that one day Mr. Moody rushed into his father’s study, 
holding a sealed envelope. “Open that!” he cried. “Open it! 
There is a check for $2,000 in there.” “How do you know?” my 
father asked, taking the envelope. “Have you seen it?” 

“No, I haven’t seen it, but I asked the Lord for it, and I know 
it’s there. I came all the way across Chicago that you might 
PROVE my FAITH in PRAYER.” Rev. Mr. Harsha stood by his 
father’s side as the envelope was opened. Sure enough, there 
was a $2,000 check within. 

“How did you get it?” asked my father. “Well, I called on 
Mr. McCormick this morning and told him the needs of our 
mission schools on the North Side, and I said to him: ‘Mr. 
McCormick, I want you to give me some money; we are in 
dreadful straits.’ ‘Why,’ he said, ‘Mr. Moody, you are striking 
me rather hard of late. I gave you something not long ago.’ 

“ ‘No matter, I am in great need, and I think it is your duty to 
help me.’ ‘How much do you think I ought to give?’ ‘One 
thousand dollars.’ ‘A thousand? Why, surely you don’t mean 
that, after all I have given you of late.’ ‘Yes, I do,’ I answered. 
‘All right, you shall have it.’ 

“Mr. McCormick went upstairs and then I thought, ‘What a 
fool not to ask for two thousand,’ and I fell on my knees there 
in the parlor and asked for two thousand. Mr. McCormick came 
down stairs with this sealed envelope. I thanked him and rushed 
over to you.” Rev. Mr. Harsha tells us that his father was in¬ 
terested, and so one day asked Mr. McCormick, “Do you remember 
giving Moody a check for two thousand dollars recently?” “Yes,” 
said Mr. McCormick, “I remember it.” 

“Can you recall the operation of your mind that LED you to 
make the check for twice the amount asked for?” 

“Well,” said he, “as I remember it I went up stairs to my 
desk and took out my check book. I wrote ‘D. L. Moody’ in the 
space prepared, and then I began to think of the NOBLE work 
he is doing in our city, and what a splendid fellow he is—and 
I concluded finally to make the check for the amount I did.” 

MOODY prayed—God worked—and the writer wrote the 
EXTRA one thousand dollars. 


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pottle 489 

Matt. 6. 3.—Let not thy left hand know. 

Acts 5. 15.—That his shadow might overshadow some one of 
them. 

Luke 7. 32.—We have piped unto you. 

Phil. 2. 7.—Counted it not a prize. 

3 John 1. 9.—Diotrephes, who loved the preeminence. 


pottle 490 

Matt. 7. 7.—Ask and ye shall receive. 

1 Kings 9. 7.—And, behold, the half was not told me. 

1 Chron. 4. 9.—Jabez more honorable than his brethren 
(prayer). 

Esther 5. 2.—The king held out to Esther the golden scepter. 

1 Tim. 4. 12.—Be thou an ensample (as an engraver) in faith. 


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pottle 491 

A monument is erected in the cemetery at Atchison, Mo., and 
this suggestive inscription is chiseled upon it: “At the last it 
biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.” 

This unusual MONUMENT marks the grave of a once 
PROMINENT citizen. He was the personification of business 
integrity, a leader in public enterprises, the exemplar of young 
men of the community. By and by the APPETITE for strong 
drink, and this is the way it came about: First, the glad new year 
greetings, then the convivial cup at the camp fire and the club. 
Simply the old, old story—prosperity, political standing, social 
INFLUENCE all swept away by strong DRINK. 

The man had died of drink, but the widow remembered the 
cursed cause of RUIN and one day by her orders this imposing 
MONUMENT was erected above his grave, and around it from 
apex to granite base the sculptor had chiseled upon the marble 
a SNAKE of many coils, whose forked tongue protruding and 
stony eyes, ever open, are a constant WARNING to all who look 
and read the unusual words. 

Perhaps this is the only inscription of its kind in the 
CEMETERIES of the world, but there would be millions instead 
of this one if all the TRUTH were told. 

Pottle 492 

A merchant of Owensboro, Ky., who was one of the most active 
workers in the recent “local OPTION” CONTEST, arose at a 
meeting held just after the defeat, and said: “This morning when 
I went to my store I found it decorated with streamers of 
CREPE, and an insulting note pinned to it. Just thirty years 
ago today there was crepe on my father’s door, and he had gone 
to a DRUNKARD’S grave.” 

Brothers, the SALOON crowd put the crepe on that door thirty 
years before, and since that time they have creped two millions 
of doors with ETERNAL black. 

Pottle 493 

Eperies is a most picturesque Hungarian town, surrounded by 
beautiful gardens and FRUITFUL fields. 

At the time of King Bela II it was only a WILDERNESS. 
The BLIND and UNHAPPY sovereign was traveling in his realm 
on a sultry day and his attendants SEARCHED for a shady place. 
The king sat under the trees, while they went to find water. 

While they were absent the king began to grope about and 
found STRAWBERRIES. He ate and quenched his thirst. 

The king afterwards ordered the wilderness cleared away, 
saying: “Here I will build a town that shall be called Eperies 
(strawberry) in REMEMBRANCE of that day.” 

To him who is BLIND and disheartened, lost and thirsty, and 
is searching for that which might SATISFY, let me point to the 
Christ, who is to such a one as resting as strawberries and clear 
water in a WEARY land—only reach about you, for he is near. 


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Pottle 491 

Judg. 2. 3.—As thorns in your sides. 

1 Sam. 3. 13.—He restrained them not. 

2 Sam. 3. 33.—Died Abner as a fool dieth. 
Prov. 23. 34.—Upon the top of a mast. 


Pottle 402 

Josh. 2. 19.—Whosoever shall go out of the doors. 

Prov. 23. 2.—If thou be a man given to appetite. 

Matt. 5. 25.—Agree with thy adversary quickly. 

1 Cor. 8. 13.—If eating meat make my brother to offend. 
1 John 4. 20.—He who loveth God, love his brother. 


Pottle 403 

Gen. 40. 23.—Yet did not the chief butler remember. 

Exod. 12. 14.—This day for a memorial. 

John 7. 37.—If any man thirst, let him come unto me and 
drink. 

Matt. 11. 28.—Come and I will give you rest. 

Gal. 5. 22.—The fruit is joy (Life-refreshment). 


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pottle 494 

Dom Pedro, a recent Emperor of Brazil, once gave audience 
to a young ENGINEER, who came to show him a new appliance 
for STOPPING railway ENGINES. The EMPEROR was 
pleased with the idea, but wished to put it to a practical TEST. 

“Day after tomorrow,” said he, “have your engine ready. We 
will have it coupled to my saloon-carriage and start.” 

At the appointed time all was in readiness—the Emperor 
entered his carriage, saying: “When going at full speed I will 
give the SIGNAL to stop, and then we shall see how your 
INVENTION works.” The young inventor mounted his engine, 
and on they sped for several miles, as fast as they could go— 
there came no signal and the engineer began to think that the 
Emperor had fallen asleep—but SUDDENLY they came to a 
sharp curve around the edge of a cliff, when, to his HORROR, 
the engineer saw a huge boulder directly ahead of them. 

He had just the presence of mind to turn the BRAKE and so 
stop the engine within a couple of yards of the fatal rock. 

The Emperor put his head out of the window and demanded 
to know the cause of the sudden stop, and as the engineer pointed 
to the rock Dom Pedro began to laugh. “Push it to one side and 
go on,” said he. The engineer moved the stone and was 
astonished to see it CRUMBLE—it was a block of starch that the 
Emperor had ordered placed upon the track the night before. 

Would that men might get such a BRAKE as that in LIFE, 
and there is one such brake—but a man going at “full speed” is 
very apt to refuse it and dash, not against a rock of STARCH, 
but a rock of DEATH that will forever WRECK the life. Go 
slow in the track of SIN—better still go not at all, lest you fail 
to get the brake. 

The HINDRANCES to a GOOD life are also beautifully illus¬ 
trated here—go ahead, push them to one side; they are blocks of 
starch—CRUMBLING Jericho walls. 

Pottle 495 

In a speech not long before the war Abraham LINCOLN said: 
“This legalized LIQUOR traffic, as carried on in the SALOONS 
and grog shops, is the TRAGEDY of civilization. Good CITIZEN¬ 
SHIP demands and requires that what is RIGHT should not only 
be made known, but be made prevalent; that what is EVIL 
should not only be detected and defeated, but DESTROYED. 
The SALOON has proved itself to be the greatest FOE, the most 
BLIGHTING CURSE of our modern civilization, and this is the 
reason why I am a practical PROHIBITIONIST. We must not 
be satisfied until the public sentiment and the individual CON¬ 
SCIENCE shall be instructed to look upon the saloon-keeper and 
the liquor seller, with all the LICENSE earth can give them, as 
simply and only a privileged malefactor—a CRIMINAL.” 

That much from the great EMANCIPATOR! Yet the liquor 
element are today maligning his memory by calling him a “bar¬ 
tender”—but when did the TRUTH ever emanate from distilleries, 
breweries, or saloons? “A LIAR from the beginning.” 


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pottle 494 

Dan. 3. 27.—Nor had the smell of fire passed on them. 

1 Cor. 3. 13.—The fire shall try every man’s work. 

2 Chron. 32. 31.—God left him to try him. 

Josh. 6. 20.—And the wall of Jericho fell down in its place. 


Pottle 495 

2 Cor. 6. 14.—What fellowship hath righteousness with 
iniquity? 

1 Cor. 8. 13.—If eating meat make my brother to offend. 

Judg. 2. 3.—As thorns in your sides. 

Prov. 27. 12.—A prudent man seeth, but the simple. 


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pottle 496 

It is said of LINNiEUS, the great Swedish BOTANIST, that he 
had placed over his doorway this MOTTO: “Live INNOCENTLY; 
God is present.” 

Linnaeus began in POVERTY, but was soon lifted above want 
by his marked SUCCESS in his profession, and he often told his 
friends that he was GRATEFUL to God only for the success he 
had, counting his own work as nothing compared with the 
ASSISTANCE God had given him. 

Linnaeus did a great work and lived a GREAT life, but 
greater than either was that MOTTO: “Live INNOCENTLY; 
God is present.” 

pottle 497 

The Rev. H. B. Gage tells of a PHOTOGRAPHER who called 
his attention to the fact that red light falling on SCARLET 
cloth makes it appear WHITE as SNOW. 

Says he: “We took a bright SCARLET table cover into his 
‘dark room,’ and drew down the red glass—sure enough, I 
could hardly believe my eyes; the cloth was WHITE as SNOW.” 

The photographer, who was a Presbyterian elder, said: “I do 
not know as it makes my FAITH any stronger, but it is very 
interesting to me that even NATURE produces chemically what 
the Bible teaches spiritually.” Red on red makes WHITE—“The 
BLOOD CLEANSES.” 


pottle 498 

A young man in a London omnibus noticed the blue ribbon 
total ABSTINENCE BADGE of a fellow-passenger and ban- 
teringly asked him how much he got for wearing it. 

“That I cannot exactly say,” replied the other, “but it costs 
me about 20,000 pounds a year.” The wearer of the BADGE was 
Frederick CHARRINGTON, son of the RICH BREWER, and the 
rightful successor to his father. But he had been convinced of 
the EVIL of the ale and BEER trade and refused to continue in 
it at a LOSS of 20,000 pounds per year. 

He lived a life of Christian philanthropy and was known 
throughout the kingdom as a most successful TEMPERANCE 
evangelist—blessing instead of CURSING his race and nation. 

pottle 499 

A lesson in artistic and commercial HONESTY comes from 
Japan, from one whom you would be quick to call a heathen. 

An English MERCHANT interviewed OKA, the great modern 
Japanese carver of IVORIES, and said to him: “Why do you 
waste your time in CARVING the under part, which is never 
seen? You could make MONEY far more rapidly if you were to 
leave that part plain.” The carver’s answer is worthy a Chris¬ 
tian: “God, who gave me SKILL and taste, can see the under 
part. I dare not leave it uncarved.” 


404 


THE BOTTLES OP HEAVEN 


pottle 496 

Gen. 16. 13.—Thou God seest me. 

John 1. 47.—An Israelite, indeed, in whom is no guile. 
Jarpes 1. 27.—Unspotted from the world. 

1 Pet. 3. 4.—The hidden man of the heart. (Ornaments.) 


Pottle 497 

Num. 29. 11.—The sin offering of the atonement. 

Isa. 1. 18.—Although your sins are as scarlet. (No interro¬ 
gation.) 

Mark 15. 25.—And they crucified him. 

Heb. 9. 22.—Without shedding of blood is no remission. 


Pottle 498 

2 Sam. 24. 24.—I will not offer that which costs me nothing. 

1 Kings 19. 19.—Plowman Elisha with twelve yoke before him. 
Job 1. 9.—Doth Job fear God for naught? 

Phil. 3. 7.—These I counted loss for Christ. 

Mark 10. 30.—And in the world to come. 


Pottle 499 

Gen. 16. 13.—Thou God seest me. 

1 Kings 7. 22.—Upon the top of a mast. 

Rom. 14. 12.—Each one give account of himself. 

2 Cor. 4. 2.—Renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. 
2 Cor. 5. 9.—Ambitious to be well pleasing unto him. 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


405 


Pottle 500 

The great SOCRATES in the last years of his life spoke of 
one whom he called “The CHARMER”—one who was to come 
and make men know and tell them of life’s mystery. MRS. 
STOWE has most beautifully set this name and thought in 
verse, as below: 

We need some CHARMER, for our hearts are sore 
With LONGINGS for the things that may not be— 

Faint for the friends that shall return no more. 

Dark with distrust, or wrung with agony. 

What is this life? And what to us is death? 

Whence came we? Whither go? And where are those 
Who in a moment, stricken from our side, 

Passed to that land of shadow and repose? 

Are they all dust? And DUST must we become? 

Or are they living in some unknown clime? 

Shall we regain them in that far-off home, 

And live anew beyond the shores of time? 

“Oh, man divine! on thee our souls have hung; 

Thou wert our TEACHER in these questions high; 

But, ah! this day divides thee from our side, 

And veils in dust thy kindly guiding eye.” 

So spake the YOUTH of Athens, weeping round, 

When Socrates lay calmly down to die— 

So spake that SAGE, prophetic of the hour, 

When earth’s fair Morning STAR should rise on high. 

They found him not, those youths of soul divine— 

Long SEEKING, wandering, watching on life’s shore; 
Reasoning, aspiring, yearning for the light, 

Death came and found them doubting as before. 

But years passed on, and lo! the CHARMER came; 

Pure, silent, sweet as comes the silver dew; 

And the world knew him not—he walked alone 
Encircled only by his TRUSTING FEW. 

Like the Athenian sage—rejected, scorned, 

Betrayed, condemned, his day of doom drew nigh 
He drew his faithful few more closely round. 

And told them that his hour was come to die. 

“Let not your heart be TROUBLED,” then he said; 

“My Father’s house has mansions large and fair; 

I go before you to prepare your place; 

I will return and take you with me there.” 

And since that hour the awful foe is CHARMED, 

And life and DEATH are glorified and fair; 

Whither he went we know—the way we KNOW, 

And with firm step press on to meet him there. 


406 


THE BOTTLES OF HEAVEN 


pottle 500 

Mark 15. 31.—He saved others, himself he cannot save. 

Isa. 53. 5.—And with his stripes we are healed. 

1 Cor. 15. 54.—Then shall come to pass—death is swallowed up. 
Job 14. 14.—If a man die shall he live? 

Psa. 8. 4.—What is man that thou art mindful of him? 

John 14. 1.—Let not your heart be troubled. 


Scripture Snbex 


GENESIS 

BOTTLE NO. 


1. 1.119,244, 409 

1. 16.358, 479 

I. 27.47, 71, 238, 273, 321, 339, 342, 459 

3. 6.87, 193, 231, 285, 474 

3. 9. 337 

3. 11. 305 

3. 13.228,375,390, 447 

3. 22. 200 

3. 23.20,308, 446 

4. 6.163,170,321,342,367, 430 

4. 8.16, 33, 169, 423 

4. 9.48, 137, 158, 175, 179, 191, 192, 

196, 204, 378, 461 

4. 16.121, 308, 438 

5. 24. 325 

6. 3. 121 

7. 1.24,197,213, 472 

7. 16.51,55,325, 475 

II. 8. 352 

16. 13.337,455,479.496, 499 

19. 20.29, 93,126, 209, 228, 231, 310, 323 

32. 26.140, 176, 361 

40. 23.56, 67,183,199. 207, 246, 393, 493 

42. 36.25, 82, 223, 230, 302, 307, 371 

47. 8.67, 395 

49. 4.56, 10S, 176,185, 203, 219, 282 

49. 22.131,163,291,293,320, 411 

50. 20. 200,244, 383 

50. 24. 138 


DEUTERONOMY 

BOTTLE NO. 


8. 2.143, 311 

12. 30.99, 236,333,446, 447 

18. 37. 459 

33. 12.135,225,244,263, 381 

33. 27. 481 


JOSHUA 

2. 19.175,254,285,478,482, 492 

2. 20. 301 

2. 21. 138 

6. 20. 494 

9. 4.16,33,221,319,323,375, 407 

9. 14.12,288,368, 453 

13. 1.141, 247, 370 


JUDGES 

2. 3.39, 333, 375, 390, 391, 394, 491, 495 

5. 20.55, 283,336, 480 

7. 20.102, 261 

16. 21.16, 21, 87, 205, 229, 266, 349, 478 

16. 22 . 256, 429 


RUTH 


EXODUS 


2. 20.56, 183, 198, 199, 207, 246, 256, 

303, 393, 


3. 14.:. 

4. 2... .15, 43, 97, 107, 137, 142, 179, 218, 

342, 362, 

12. 14.... 143, 189, 311, 327, 344, 364, 373, 


393, 440, 


17. 12. 

20. 7. 

20. 8.57,152, 224,314, 363, 373, 

20. 12.289, 

20. 17.44, 92,236, 

30. 12.24,117,180,344,364, 

35. 21. 


1. 14.9, 80, 108, 145, 176, 203, 322, 433 

1. 20.131,138, 200, 230, 302, 452, 456 


403 

432 

1 SAMUEL 
471 

3. 13.107,155,185, 253, 376, 404, 491 

493 7.12.198,247,454 

108 9. 6. 288 

417 15. 22 . 69, 91, 103, 204, 211, 259 

445 15.23.259,364,466 

442 

387 


2 SAMUEL 


LEVITICUS 


6. 13.164,282, 313 

13. 45.52,129, 273, 292,351, 468 


NUMBERS 


1. 26.62,289,303, 327 

3. 33.169, 175,333,446, 491 

6. 3.91, 389 

6. 9. 392 

8. 1-14.157,291,392, 480 

9. 12.7, 52, 129, 137, 170, 256, 332, 412 

18. 29.67,107,143, 160, 354, 362, 395, 460 

24. 24.54,58,123,159, 242, 327, 498 


10. 29. 329 

14. 25.21, 61, 91, 121, 166, 277, 350, 425 

14. 40. 103 

29. 11.114, 117, 172, 180, 344, 381, 497 

32. 23... .29, 93, 209, 229. 236, 305, 374, 

407, 428, 447, 455, 462 

35. 11.154,213, 344, 381 

35, 26. 478 


1 KINGS 


7. 22... .1, 79,115,174,182, 202, 272, 290, 

411, 453, 499 

9. 7.325, 490 

19. 19.58,121,377, 498 

20. 40... .72, 73, 208, 239, 282, 389, 400, 

416, 425, 426 


407 
















































































408 


SCRIPTURE INDEX 


2 KINGS 

BOTTLE NO. 

2. 10.. .59,101,140,178,187, 203, 219, 298, 433 


2. 15.164,389,391, 452 

3. 11.7,79, 105, 110, 157,328, 470 

3. 16. 234 

4. 14. 411 

5. 14.246, 292 

6. 6.137,264,360, 412 

8. 12.179, 334 

8. 13.414, 446 

13. 19.130,243,247,282, 296 


1 CHRONICLES 

4. 9.195, 262, 306, 345, 346, 368, 453, 490 

13. 3.268, 288, 306, 335, 345, 368, 420, 429 


2 CHRONICLES 

15. 3.40, 151, 256, 350, 400, 426 

18. 7.139, 351 

29. 27.117, 332 

32.31. 494 


BOTTLE NO. 


32.5 . 350 

37. 3.244, 382 

37.5 .23,68, 70 

40. 2.. 102,119,135, 173,187, 235, 345, 362, 393 

42. 1.237,275,284, 396 

42. 11.70, 137,146,237, 307 

47. 1.237, 307 

51. 1. 237 

55. 17.132, 237 

55. 21.33,48,116,169, 407 

62. 5. 66 

65. 9.2, 15, 113, 124, 256, 360, 467 

81. 10. 265 

92. 12. 115 

95. 6.14,127,158, 237, 363, 417, 392 

98. 5.331, 464 

103. 13.162, 185, 308 

107. 6.195,270, 306, 434 

119. 67 . 25,26,31,38,270, 452 

119. 105.99,439, 463 

119. 110.109,130,319, 333 

119. 130.. .31, 38, 40, 86, 268, 274, 293, 419, 439 

121. 1.28,265,368, 393 

127. 1.293, 454 

127. 3. 338 

137.2.163,389, 456 

139. 17.23, 110,272,301, 453 

144. 15. 334 


EZRA 


PROVERBS 


8. 22.244, 335 

8. 29.66,109, 476 


NEHEMIAH 


4. 9. 228 

7. 4.101,176, 362 

8. 1.288, 335 


13. 24... .35, 39,98,188, 212, 251, 349, 390, 417 


ESTHER 


4. 14.176, 179 

5. 2...146, 490 


JOB 


1. 9.244,292, 452 

2.9.282,417, 498 

14. 41. 500 

19. 20.51, 142 

40. 4. 216 

42.5. 392 


4. 15. 
4. 23. 

10. 31 

11 . 1 . 
11. 25 
11. 30 

14. 10 

14. 12 

15. 1. 

15. 33 

16. 32 

20. 27 

22 . 6 . 


.29,89,229,374,413, 415 

.280,287,428,429,447, 476 

.1, 417 

.290,388, 437 

.92, 123, 168, 242, 245 

.3,5, 74, .167, 362, 435, 444 

. 275 

. 457 

.283,367, 379 

.104,114,384,388, 454 

.. 10, 37, 130,185, 187, 206, 312, 384 

.56,108,337, 457 

95, 132, 148, 189, 212, 274, 308, 


340, 349, 402, 440 

23. 2 . 33, 107, 167, 175, 209, 323, 492 

23. 34.130,167, 175, 281, 274, 446, 491 

25. 11.28,90, 119, 163,365, 417 

27. 4. 367 

27. 12.154, 205, 333, 478, 495 

27. 17... .39, 79, 89, 98, 137, 158, 362, 390, 

_ 391, 394, 436, 480 

30. 26.170, 408 

31. 28.260, 274, 289, 304, 309, 338, 340 


ECCLESIASTES 


PSALMS 


1 . 1 ... 

8. 4.. 

17. 15 

18. 19 

18. 49 

19. 1. 
19. 10 
19. 13 
23. 1.. 
23. 4., 
23. 5.. 
25. 7.. 
27. 3.. 
30. 12, 


.296, 374 

47,114, 262, 273,321,361, 470, 500 
20, 71, 129, 178, 275, 300, 321, 

339, 342, 436 

. 108 

.127,237,314, 356 

. 23, 43, 352,358,377, 431, 432, 479 

.325,329,388,419, 453 

.205,261,392, 465 

. 475 

... 120,159, 200, 214, 368, 409, 463 

.2, 12, 15, 22, 271 

. 440 

. 237 

. 237 


3.2. 120 

3. 7.90, 118,276,315, 379 

5. 4.109,219,316, 484 

5. 15.112, 299, 388 

8. 1.184, 436 

9. 10.10, 75, 316, 324, 359, 396, 458 

9. 18.93, 268, 376 

11- 1. 183 

12. 1.26, 100,181, 260, 365, 374, 440 

12. 14....69, 116, 136, 180, 297. 381, 414, 

437, 455, 462, 479 


SONG OF SOLOMON 


1-6. 30 

2. 15.107,196,365,375,379, 474 

5. 10.114, 153, 342, 473 






































































































SCRIPTURE INDEX 


409 


ISAIAH 


BOTTLE NO. 


1. 3.68,197, 225 

1. 18.20, 24, 104, 129, 497 

2. 4.128, 191, 422 

5. 13.49,68,149,225,333, 416 

11. 6.60, 170, 241, 360 

19. 12.64, 162, 315, 377 

21. 12.40, 101, 239, 285 

27. 6.110, 137, 141, 264, 291, 320, 365, 

369, 412, 427 

28. 20.236, 279, 292, 332, 337, 462 

32. 20 . 448 

34. 4. 267 

35. 8.122, 352 

40. 1. 68 

40. 15.36, 358 

40. 31.23, 64, 110, 335, 427 

46. 10.90, 118, 272, 315, 357 

52. 7.178, 343 

53. 5.106, 114, 117, 172, 180, 297, 336, 

381, 500 

54. 2. 141 

54. 17.4, 138 

55. 1. 22, 124, 271 

55. 11.156, 186, 192 

55. 13.314, 345, 346, 365, 370, 412 

58. 1. 485 

58. 6.150, 168,461, 473 

5S. 13.363,373, 445 

60. 20 . 38 

61. 1.163,343, 427 

66. 13.289, 304 


JEREMIAH 

3. 12. 216 

6. 16.6, 189 

8. 20... .61, 77,121, 250, 285, 356, 400, 425, 426 

8. 22. 233 

17. 9.17,18, 215, 292, 341, 412, 469, 472 

31. 14.15,284,415, 418 


LAMENTATIONS 

3. 27.61, 100, 155, 181, 185, 296, 328, 

406, 428. 438 

3. 39. 82 


EZEKIEL 


4. 16. 236 

18. 2.188, 251, 253, 274, 340, 389, 394 

33. 6.8,28,48, 179,343,426, 468 

37. 3.138,164, 170, 264, 360 


DANIEL 

3 27 .413, 494 

4 17 .236, 363 

5 27 . .36,305,316, 483 

6. 10.145, 249,414, 434, 460 

12. 3.3, 4, 241, 444 


HOSEA 

4. 17.53,121, 277, 298, 351, 388, 438 


JOEL 


95, 148, 154, 193, 212, 239, 253, 
274, 309, 340, 


402 


AMOS 

BOTTLE NO. 

4. 12.Ill, 121, 154, 277, 372, 441, 484 


JONAH 

2. 1... .155, 163, 270, 343, 375, 386, 414, 

434, 465, 484 

4.4. 367 


ZECHARIAH 


3.4. 487 

4. 10.79, 97, 228, 243, 312, 397, 403 * 

14. 1.113,114,121, 341 


MALACHI 

3. 3.187, 215 

3. 10.48, 242, 245 


MATTHEW 

3. 25. 109 

5. 14.1, 75. 125, 271, 391, 439 

5. 25.61, 130, 142,176, 492 

5. 44. 78 

6. 3.75, 489 

6. 6.23, 36, 272, 313, 325, 357, 368, 434. 453 

6. 9.47, 70. 162, 255, 262 

6. 15.78,170,190, 430 

6. 18. 69 

6. 25. 469 

7. 1. 194 

7. 3.191, 437 

7. 7.:. 490 

7. 14.166, 465 

7. 16.186,191, 268, 286, 303, 354, 407 

8. 12.5,426, 485 

10. 16.415, 418 

11 c 41 67 Q5 

ll! 12.......'...42,125, i76, 359, 370, 469! 485 

11. 28.23, 27, 45, 106, 493 

11.30. 406 

13. 25.196, 228 

14. 31.50,55,431, 432 

15. 19. 280 

16. 18.4,138, 408 

18. 3.360, 481 

18. 32.78, 297 

20. 28.34, 84,117,172, 318, 320, 364, 397 

23. 11.174,303, 318 

23. 37. 350 

24. 14. 267 

24. 24.16, 33,157,169, 240, 323, 407 

24. 44.Ill, 116 

25. 36 . 330 

25. 39.303, 366 

26. 15.43, 92, 101, 103, 322, 414 

26. 72.9, 28, 35, 76, 249, 414 


MARK 


2. 12.58, 

4. 24...134, 139, 415,418, 

4. 28.54, 79, 110, 186, 316, 405, 428, 

6. 4. 

6. 31.118, 272, 

7.6.215, 331, 

7. 24.192, 264, 273, 

8. 36.42, 43, 80, 257, 

9. 3.24, 

9. 41. 


218 

451 

444 

449 

357 

415 

320 

387 

488 

403 


1.3 







































































































410 


SCRIPTURE INDEX 


BOTTLE NO. 


9. 45.:.142, 155, 257, 467 

10. 13.110, 181, 366, 444 

10. 21. 284 

10. 22.30, 44, 148, 305 

10. 30.338, 381, 498 

15. 25.146,180, 220, 297, 336, 381, 477, 497 

15. 31.62,172, 317, 341, 381, 413, 500 

16. 15.8, 28, 48,178, 222, 343, 359, 403, 468 


LUKE 

1. 13.132, 183 

1. 17.89, 160, 171, 181, 188, 251, 308, 

309, 340, 349, 3S9, 395, 442 

2. 14. 422 

4. 16.57, 72,127, 204, 278, 294, 375, 404 

6. 12. 335 

6. 23.80, 170 

7. 13. 401 

7. 32.295, 449, 489 

7. 45. 178 

8. 17. 479 

8. 18.155, 396, 398, 451 

8. 20 . 399 

9. 26.28,249, 260 

10. 21. 248 

10. 27.232, 241, 330 

10. 37.32, 144, 194, 361 

10.39.326,408, 471 

11.8.140,317, 361 

11. 9.140, 213, 294, 317, 434 

12. 7.11,126,371, 401 

12. 20.44,101, 160, 161, 250, 257, 299 

12. 34.43, 44, 399 

13. 8.54, 350 

14.28.159, 160 

15. 18.20, 26, 38, 321, 395 

15. 20. 162 

15. 32.143, 151, 171, 201 

16. 20.96, 158 

17. 32.469,474, 482 

18. 11. 32 

18. 13.52,321,465, 472 

18. 30.291, 409 

19.4 .61, 203, 258 

19.5 .8, 235 

19. 7.96, 449 

19. 10.253, 416 

19. 41. 469 

21.3.123,276, 397 

21. 4. 245 

21. 61.429, 482 

22. 61. 337 

23. 44. 268 

24. 6 . 352 

24. 15. 275 

24.49. 164 


JOHN 

1. 46.144, 147, 184 

1. 47. 496 

3. 7.165,215,280,292,298, 472 

3. 14.210, 220 

3. 16.27,409, 486 

3. 30.269, 4S8 

4.9.124.226, 470 

4. 10.68,225,23, 284 

5. 22. 337 

5. 39. 65 

5. 40.197, 233, 284, 298 

6. 11.18, 60, 97, 110, 126, 132, 133, 218 

6. 27.301, 421 

6. 37.52, 201, 226 

6.53. 341 

6. 66.9,134, 356 


BOTTLE NO. 


7. 17.278, 318 

7. 37.124,271, 493 

7.53. 477 

10.5 . 240 

10. 7. 475 

10. 10.2, 12,22,326,329, 369 

10. 27.195, 398 

11. 35.235, 378 

11.39.18,141,146, 165 

12. 19.106, 220, 439 

12. 32.210, 220 

13.7. 230 

13. 15.235, 330, 384, 385, 421, 461, 73 

14. 1.40, 500 

14. 3.148, 322, 394, 450 

15.5 . 369 

15. 14.91, 103, 156, 211, 259, 364, 427, 466 

15. 16.186,370, 420 

16. 13. 457 

17.15.19,85, 88 

17. 17.65,134, 296, 382, 386, 419 

19.5 .114, 144, 153,337, 460 

20. 26. 279 

21. 15.181, 365 

21. 16. 427 


THE ACTS 

2. 1.3,422, 434 

2. 39.160,181,189, 239, 274, 308, 416, 481 

3. 8. 64 

5. 15. 489 

8. 4.34,74, 355 

8 . 20 . 59 

8. 29.74, 167, 260, 403, 435 

11.24.353, 423 

17. 12.31,38, 65, 165, 419 

19. 19.99, 264, 471 

20. 20.28, 74,15S, 173, 222, 435 

21. 13..-. 405 


24. 16....6, 13, 53, 56. 152, 206, 278, 314, 

354. 398, 401, 424, 457, 474 
24. 25... .21, 63, 72, 73, 77, 144, 166, 189, 

277, 398, 400, 426 

26. 9. 457 

26. 22... .35,96,99,147,158,167,177,260, 

324, 355, 435 

28. 6... .86, 144, 147, 184, 256. 264, 268, 

236, 352, 366, 410, 431, 432 


ROMANS 

1. 14. 207 

1. 15. 405 

1. 16.... 156, 164, 165, 167, 193, 201, 249, 

286, 413, 467, 480 
1. 20.115, 358,377, 400, 431, 432, 479 

1. 26.227, 425, 438 

2. 4.201, 241, 291, 297 

3. 1. 291 

3. 22.112, 347, 437, 472 

5. 1.26,40, 104 

5.8. 289 

6.14. 17 

6. 23... .5, 93, 171, 172, 180, 297, 317, 341, 

364, 374 

8. 17.161,197, 201, 214, 298, 441, 477 

8. 28.25, 82, 223, 230, 302, 371, 383, 450 

11. 17. .412 

12. 11.425, 485 

12. 19.37, 188, 283, 430 

12. 20. 190 

13.7.286,303,311,359,411, 454 

14, 7... .6, 63, 126, 150, 174, 196, 204, 290, 376 

14. 12.208, 499 

15. 28.48,145, 448, 480 
































































































































SCRIPTURE INDEX 


411 


1 CORINTHIANS 

BOTTLE NO. 


1. 20.65, 99.134, 248, 386, 483 

1. 27.GO, 122, 133, 236 

1. 30. 394 

2. 14.41, 136, 195, 380, 459 

3. 1. 326 

3.5. 448 

3. 13.426, 494 

3. 15.19,51, 142, 254, 465, 484 

3. 18. 248 

6. 19.250,316, 467 

8. 13.175,281,492, 495 

9. 25...10, 112,161, 476 

in 4 39 s ; 3^9 

10*. 12. '. 16,' 30, 63,' 102,' 109,' 139,' 22l’ 323^ 

451 

10. 13.206, 209, 415, 418 

10. 17. 448 

11. 1. 108 

11. 28... .30, 182, 208, 278, 313, 351, 380, 

390, 474, 479 

13. 12.15, 41, 82, 130, 148, 153, 211, 479 

15. 10.19, 35, 76, 108, 219, 281, 312, 441 

15. 33.39, 89, 98, 175, 209, 212, 229, 391 

15.54 . 500 

15. 57.... 120, 159, 198, 206, 217, 252, 307, 

347, 409, 450 

15. 58... .6, 10, 84, 105, 131, 156, 320, 324, 

396, 437 


2 CORINTHIANS 


3. 18.20, 39, 81, 94, 98, 273, 402, 419, 

473, 488 

4. 2.4, 16, 169, 258, 437, 499 

4. 18.34, 115,136, 160, 250, 299, 399, 450 

5. 9 .... 10, 13, 58, 105, 152, 165, 173, 187, 

262, 276, 290,337,370, 384, 389,413, 436, 

473, 499 

6. 2.21,42,72,77,147,166, 277 

6, 14. 495 

6. 15. 268 

6. 17.19,35,85,88,231, 314 

6. 18. 70 

7.1.86,88,113,227,482, 487 

7. 11.14, 104, 171, 213 

9. 6 .50, 92, 105 

9. 8 .45, 132, 369 

9. 15.199, 217, 242, 245, 286, 295, 304, 467 

10. 10.122, 133 

11. 14.... 16, 109, 116, 169, 221, 319, 347, 

375, 415, 418 

12. 14.59, 119, 177, 243, 284, 405, 421 


BOTTLE NO 


4. 28 . 458 

5. 15.. .152, 182, 234, 278, 349, 376, 380, 

404, 421, 423 

5. 16.7,34,42, 111,157,192, 374 

5. 18. 408 

5. 20.25, 127, 132, 198 

5. 25.311,327, 341 

6. 12.17, 102, 111, 154, 193, 198, 216, 

252, 292, 319, 347, 370 


PHILIPPI ANS 

1. 9.49, 165 

2. 7.330, 366, 470, 489 

3. 7.58, 62, 80,142,197, 301, 384,471, 498 

3. 13.14,183, 250, 294, 396, 409 

3. 15.195, 380 

3. 20 . 47, 135, 238, 262, 300, 339, 450, 464 

3. 21.348,436, 488 

4. 11. 200 


COLOSSI ANS 

1. 18.18, 69,153, 210, 238, 344, 473 

1. 27.46, 269, 341, 464 

3.2 .177,202,296,376, 398 

3.3 . 269 

3. 4. 348 

3.9.165, 171, 190,430, 482 


1 THESSALONIANS 

4. 11.37, 64, 75, 90, 276, 283, 315, 357 

5. 11.84, 125, 222, 420 

5. 19.121, 156, 457 


2 THESSALONIANS 

2. 10.33, 116, 221, 319 

3. 10 . 224, 258 


1 TIMOTHY 

4. 12.. . .50,86 138,150, 227, 232, 263, 265, 

266, 290, 302, 318, 371, 383, 466, 479, 490 


5.8. 239 

6. 9.44, 49, 221, 319, 387, 388, 399, 458 


GALATIANS 


2. 20.46, 269, 

5. 7.116, 177, 334, 380, 390, 410, 438, 

5. 9.81, 83, 87, 231, 266, 310, 349, 391, 

5. 17. 

5. 22 ... .1, 2, 11, 22, 37, 45, 59, 125, 148, 
149, 163, 168, 174,194, 214, 217, 232, 241, 
263, 265, 283, 318, 327, 334, 361, 406, 410, 
411, 420, 423, 464, 469, 

5. 23.252, 281, 384, 

6 2 .84, 168, 174, 378, 

6 7 .100, 188, 196, 

6. 9.54,59, 131, 243, 249, 320, 403, 


341 


2 TIMOTHY 

474 



399 

1.5... 

.95,189, 251, 253, 260, 274, 289, 304, 

408 


309, 338, 340, 402 


1. 12.. 

.26, 56, 76, 159, 486 


2. 3... 

.123, 128, 185, 276, 328, 336 


2. 12.. 

. 356 

493 

2. 15.. 

.13, 182, 276, 278, 294, 421 

385 

3.5... 

.144, 164 331, 354, 385, 410 

406 

3. 13.. 

.116, 268, 293, 483 

296 

3. 16.. 

. .31, 38, 65, 119, 122, 134, 139, 155, 

444 


371, 382, 386, 419, 483 


4. 6.120, 145, 148,405, 441, 450 

4.7. 128 


EPHESIANS 


2 . 8 ., 
3. 15 

3. 20 

4. 14 


.27, 

.190, 255, 401, 

.15, 218, 

134, 139, 149, 177, 223, 240, 312, 


248 

422 

279 

404 


TITUS 


2. 13.267,348, 464 

3.6.2, 22 























































































412 


SCRIPTURE INDEX 


HEBREWS 

BOTTLE NO. 

2. 1.42, 77.189, 277, 372, 400, 425, 426 

2. 3.72, 73, 77, 154, 193, 252, 350, 398 

3. 13.29, 49, 63, 233, 319, 323, 457 

4. 2.26, 27, 64, 450, 486 

6. 1... .46, 54, 123, 177, 202, 326, 369, 383, 

421,424, 460 

6. 19.6,313,372, 400 

7. 25. 317 

9. 22.. 104,117,172,180, 257, 336,334, 378, 497 

10. 22.113,124, 487 

10. 24. 316 

10. 25.57, 314, 363, 373, 445 

10. 36.. .59, 97, 105,177, 203, 282, 312, 361, 433 

10. 39.9, 145, 211, 216, 285, 356 

11. 1.138, 166, 211, 383, 481, 486 

11. 25.73, 201, 277, 285, 295, 298 

11. 26.80, 161, 301, 356, 387 

11. 34.106, 171, 328, 346 

12. 2.39, 49, 94, 238, 345, 379, 419, 420, 471 

12. 11.270, 451 

12. 17.425,429, 443 

12. 14.299, 300, 339, 450 


JAMES 


2 PETER 

BOTTLE NO. 

1. 5.. .56, 76,81.83,128, 216, 219, 336, 433, 460 

1. 19.113, 355, 366, 463 

2. 15. 455 

3. 16. 122 

1 JOHN 

2. 16 .30,208,385, 458 

2. 17.299, 382 

4.8 .304, 371 

4. 19.94, 106 

4. 20... .95, 173, 190, 191, 232, 235, 255, 

378, 422, 461, 492 


1. 7. 


2 JOHN 

..63, 116, 169, 240, 407 


3 JOHN 

1. 9....10, 32, 69, 96, 125, 208, 311, 366, 

385, 489 


1. 19.315,379, 417 

1. 26.194,367, 379 

1. 27.19, 150, 331, 482, 496 

3.5.53,60,87, 196,209, 323 


1. 24. 


JUDE 

...24, 36, 71, 182, 436, 488 


3 16 

. 75, 453 


REVELATION 


5. 16.. 

.55, 279, 317, 335, 434 





2. 10.... 

.. .80,112, 128, 140, 160, 295, £36, 476 



3. 11.... 


112 



3. 16.... 

.125, 130, 353, 424, 409, 

485 


1 PETER 

3. 20... 

.98, 246, 346, 435, 

456 


5. 9. 

.342, 

443 



14. 11... 

.5, 

469 

1. 5... 

. 146 

19. 6 .... 

. 45, 198, 

334 

1. 8. .. 

. 94,151,214, 217 

21. 21... 

477 

2, 7 

.301, 329 

09 4 

UM. T, , « . . 

. 41, 67, 71, 184, 300, 

348 

3. 4... 

. .81, 83, 88, 113, 136, 208, 280, 354, 

22. 14... 

5 


389, 402, 455, 459, 496 

22. 16... 

. 394, 

463 

5. 7... 

. 11, 12, 68, 302, 383, 456 

22. 17... 

. 173, 178, 271, 348, 353, 355, 

468 

5.8... 

. 102, 149, 234, 292, 310, 378 

22. 18... 

. 134, 139, 382, 386, 

483 





















































Snfcex 


A page 

Ability.159, 207, 238, 489 

Above. 85 

Absent... ” ”! 268 

Absorbed.269, 396 

Abstinence. 498 

Abundance.’ 2 

Accept.333, 356, 411 

Accident. 155, 207, 380, 389 

Accurate. 451 

Accustomed. 195 

Admiration.178, 317 

Admission.166, 375 

Adoption. 409 

Adornment. 452 

Adrift. 416 

Advent. 348 

Adversity.187, 452 

Advice. 296 

Affected. 227 

Affection. 185 

Aflame. 30 

Afraid.Ill, 279, 356, 456 

Africa. 173 

Agassiz.368, 404 

Aged. 468 

Agent. 91 

Agony.254, 335, 366 

Alarm.215, 228, 233, 268, 398 

Alaskan.14, 224 

Alien. 7 

All.56,78,204, 452 

Alluring. 221 

Alms. 445 

Alphonso. 301 

Alps. 127 

Ambition.42, 148, 165, 173, 187, 193, 

200, 250, 290, 413 

America. 192 

Amputated... 257 

Ancestors. 251 

Anchor.6, 313, 400 

Angel. 330 

Anger.37, 367, 453 

Animals. 309 

Annoyance. 451 

Answered.279, 283, 335 

Ants. 382 

Anxiety.11, 233 

Appetite.32, 167, 281, 491 

Applause.276, 286 

Appreciation.183, 411 

Arago. 177 

Architect. 452 

Argonaut. 418 

Aristocrat.96, 345, 366 

Arms.135, 204, 257, 481 

Army.67, 170 

Arranged. 383 

Artist.77, 184, 283, 339, 410, 421 

Arve. 482 

Ashes. 137 

Asking. 265 

Asleep. 228 

Aspiration. 357 

Assimilated. 402 

Assistance.7, 266, 496 

Associates.39, 89, 163, 390, 482 

Aster. 266 

413 


PAGE 


Astronomy. 43 , 177 , 431 

Atheist. 431 

Athletic....’"!!!!! 359 

Atmospheres. 85 

Atonement.H 7 , 381 

Attention.195, 451 

Attraction.149, 221 

Audubon. 23 

Australia. 192 

Avarice. 44 

Awake. 227 


B 

Baby. 304 

Backsliding. 216 

Badge..;. 498 

Bait. 319 

Balance. 406 

Balances.36, 305 

Bank. . . 15 

Bars. 165 

Battle.255, 482 

Beautiful.94, 115, 174, 304 

Beer.281, 498 

Beforehand. Ill 

Beggar.123, 244, 445 

Beginnings. 374 

Belief.27, 147, 166, 184, 191, 201, 329, 

354, 368, 382, 409, 432 

Bellarius. 246 

Bells. 339 

Bend. 152 

Benevolence. 268 

Bequest. 150 

Besetting. 379 

Best.18, 200, 291, 371, 459 

Betray. 322 

Better. 5 

Betty. 456 

Beware. 413 

Bible.134, 268, 274, 418, 453, 483 

Bind. 388 

Bird.88, 340 

Birthday. 260 

Birthright. 443 

Bitter.275, 280 

Blackness. 463 

Blasphemy. 76, 293, 484 

Blessing.132, 295 

Blighting. 495 

Blind.41, 244, 433, 493 

Blood.104, 184, 204, 341, 344, 497 

Bloom. 137 

Blot. 350 

Blunting. 446 

Blush. 227 

Bodies. 179 

Boer. 333 

Books. 99 

Born. 165 

Botanist. 496 

Bought. 344 

Bound. 378 

Bowed. 425 

Boys.67, 70, 189, 428, 440 

Brake.438, 494 





































































































































414 


INDEX 


PAGE 


PAGE 


Branches. 

Bravery. 

Bread. 

Briar.... 

Brigands. 

Brilliant.. 


293 

....145, 469, 484 

. 132 

. 412 

.277, 296 

Brotherhood. 


. 422 

Brought. 


. 167 

Browning. 


. 327 

Bucket. 



Budded. 


. 412 

Buddha. 


. 235 

Building. 


. 454 

Bungler. 


. 79 

Burden. 


.12, 302, 434 

Burglar. 


.165, 337 

Business.. 


....373, 399, 447 

Busy. 


. 250 


c 


Cable. 

Call.239, 

Calumny. 

Calvary. 

Cameo. 

Cancer. 

Cannibal. 

Cannon. 

Canova. 

Canvas... 

Capture.32,217, 236, 

Card. 

Careless.113, 

Carlyle.148, 

Carving. 

Cast. 

Caste. 

Caterpillar. 

Cathedral.216, 

Caught. 

Cause. 

Cave. 

Cemetery.250, 388, 

Center. ‘ . 

Centrifugal. 


Cervera... 

Chained. 

Challenge. 

Chance. 

Change.171, 190, 

Chaplains. 

Character.54, 57, 94, 113, 193, 

Charmed. 


Charrington 
Cheer. 


411 

254 

453 
220 
116 
413 

30 

423 

79 

421 

386 

403 

182 

449 

499 

264 

96 

196 

287 
149 
281 
327 
491 
291 
394 
363 
146 

454 
431 
389 

288 
452 
342 
498 
469 


Compelled. 233 

Completion. 168 

Complain.225, 320 

Compliment... 473 

Comrade. 325 

Conceal.106, 434 

Concentration. 396 

Condor. 319 

Conduct.66, 354 

Confession.201, 279, 286, 335, 356 

Confident. 237 

Conflict. 482 

Confucius. 235 

Conquer.130, 206, 261, 312, 324 

Conscience.184, 398, 457, 495 

Consecrated_.V.159, 318, 353, 471 

Consistent.35, 272 

Consult. 288 

Contention. 75 

Contest. 492 

Contradiction. 483 

Control.252, 312, 357, 376, 379 

Conversation.. 290 

Converted.74, 121, 171, 173, 190, 236, 

279, 346, 352, 403, 419, 427, 486 

Convict. 480 

Convicted. 279 

Convinced.121, 368, 419 

Coronation. 355 

Cost.112, 121, 123, 141, 159, 199, 381, 

436, 458, 498 

Costermonger.303, 366 

Country. 189 

Courage.158, 318 

Covenant.80, 291 

Cowboy. 427 

Creation. 431 

Credit. 411 

Cremona. 459 

Criminal.286, 360, 495 

Criticism. 382 

Crow.106, 112, 115, 137, 220, 225, 255, 

275, 289, 321, 332, 333, 343, 413 

Crowd. 170 

Crown.76, 80, 112, 145, 161, 276, 348, 476 

Crucifixion. 220 

Cruelty. 309 

Crumble. 494 

Crystal. 49 

Cure.213, 413, 467 

Curse.106, 175, 495, 498 

Custom.132, 385 

Cyclone. 11 


D 


Childhood.95, 110, 148, 181, 241, 263, 

274, 2S1, 293, 309, 33S, 349, 360, 366, 

402, 470, 471 

Choice.61, 121, 489 

Choke. 375 

Christ.337, 348, 422 

Christian.95, 108, 181, 384 

Church.150, 293, 296, 399, 419, 448, 460 

Circle. 410 

Citizen. 495 

Clinging. 361 

Coincidence. 383 

Colic. 292 

Collection.242, 245, 448 

College. 409 

Come.27, 106, 167, 348, 442 

Comfort.23, 223 

Command. 91 

Commend. 401 

Common. 83 

Communion. 272 

Companion.98, 218, 383 

Compass. 474 


Daily.52,260,272, 274 

Damage. 429 

Damnation. 114 

Dance .... . . # t 191 

Danger37,' Kl, 102,139* 155,207, 313, 

337, 376, 390, 413, 415, 465, 478 

Dante. 273 

Darkness.119, 176, 435, 469 

Darwin. 205 

Dawning. 300 

Day. 300 

Death....... ,4S, 93, 95, 106, 137, 172, 176, 

180, 268, 285, 352, 395, 450, 484, 494 

Debauched. 286 

Debt.374, 411 

Decay.:. 300 

Deceive..139, 169, 351, 455 

Decision.209, 403 

Defeat.182, 282, 322, 482 

Defect. 380 

Defence. 2S3 

Deformity. 289 

Deism. 352 



















































































































































INDEX 


415 


PAGE 


PAGE 


Delay. 429 

Delight. 301 

Delivered...-. 344 

Dentistry. 294 

Deposit. 56 

Descendants.188, 345 

Desert. 370 

Design.230, 431, 432 

Desire.89, 306 

Despair.40, 484 

Desperate. 360 

Despise...97, 459 

Destination. 66 

Destroy.266, 310, 314, 495 

Detail. 185 

Determination.185, 187, 354 

Developed. 84 

Devil. 121 

Devotion.322, 339, 363, 413 

Devour. 378 

Dewey.128, 276 

Dickens. 240 

Dictator. 295 

Difference. 472 

Difficult. 396 

Dikes. 135 

Diplomacy. 244 

Directed.•_ 156 

Disagreeable.163, 451 

Disappointment.187, 218, 384 

Disarm. 259 

Disaster.154, 438, 474 

Disclose. 216 

Discourage.131, 177, 206, 320, 362 

Disgust. 423 

Disobey.91, 207, 259 

Disposition. 190 

Dissatisfied. 318 

Distance. 391 

Disturb. 363 

Dirt. 129 

Ditched.234, 379 

Divine. 8 

Doctrine. 134 

Dog. 103 

Dollar. 43 

Door.36, 226, 246, 475 

Doubt.50, 147, 225 

Dove. 381 

Dragon. 378 

Dream.77, 409 

Drifting.3, 21, 42, 188, 313, 376, 400 

Drink... .130, 140, 167, 186, 200, 281, 329, 491 

Drop. 150 

Drummer. 228 

Drunkard.188, 229, 281, 492 

Duplicity. 169 

Durant. 255 

Duty.69, 97, 276, 338, 459 

Dwarf. 326 


E 


Eager. 133 

Eagle.21, 238, 258 

Earnestness. 485 

Ears.398, 418 

Earthquake.183, 414 

Easy.Ill, 406 

Economy. 401 

Eddystone. 454 

Edified. 353 

Edison. 206 

Education. 218 

Effigy. 293 

Effort.42, 105, 141, 233, 328, 489 

Elder. 353 

Elect. 169 

Electric.... ..3S0, 439 


Elephant. 458 

Emancipator. 495 

Emerald. 287 

Emergency. 157 

Emerson. 394 

Eminent. 419 

Emotion. 217 

Emperor.244, 494 

Empty. 471 

Encouraged.7, 409 

Endangered. 266 

Endeavor. 409 

Endurance.178, 289 

Enemy.228, 297, 475 

Energy.. 75.„ 

Engagement. 108 

Engines.113, 159, 494 

Enjoy.148, 291 

Ensample. 232 

Ensnared.*. 323 

Enthusiastic.9, 469 

Enticed. 291 

Entitled. ,]sf. 384 

Entrapped. 333 

Environment.292, 389 

Envy. 151 

Errands. 327 

Ericsson. 284 

Esau. 443 

Escape.102, 142, 447, 469 

Eternal.435, 492 

Evidence. 352 

Evil....,.'. 498 

Exact.13, 182 

Examination. 445 

Example. .249, 265, 272, 314, 316, 317, 354, 385 

Exceptions.78, 229 

Excitement. 485 

Excuse. 314 

Executed.180, 229, 364 

Expect. 237 

Expense.. 193 

Experience.185, 302, 461, 464 

Expert. 179 

External. 389 

Extra. 490 

Eye.142, 380 


F 


Fable. 320 

Face....20, 67, 71, 104, 144, 153, 171, 184, 

189, 260, 307, 337 

Failure. 350 

Faith. .22, 50, 138, 159, 166, 230, 248, 263, 

265, 307, 390, 395, 486, 490, 497 

Faithful.80, 159, 173 

Fallen.20, 362, 481 

Fame.125, 163, 318, 388, 419 

Family.52, 251, 253, 338, 349, 361 

Famine.2, 215 

Fanatic.35, 233 

Fashion.48, 285, 318 

Fatal. 415 

Father.. .26, 40, 70, 85, 160, 162, 204, 308, 442 

Fault. 379 

Fear.25, 68, 76, 146, 309 

Feat. 473 

Fernery. 232 

Fettered. 21 

Fidelity.103, 105 

Fighting.324, 370 

Finger. 198 

Finished. 267 

Finnish. 215 

Firmness. 185 

Fire.87, 125, 252, 462 

First.252, 275 

Fish.88, 239 




















































































































































416 


INDEX 


PAGE 


PAGE 


Fitted.278, 

Flag. 

Flask. 

Flatterer.76, 

Flaw. 

Flesh. 

Flight. 

Flood. 

Flowers. 

Foe.138, 266, 

Fold. 

Follow. 

Fond. 

Food. 

Fool.„.229, 254, 299, 

Foot. 

Force. 

Forewarned. 

Forge. 

Forget.262, 

Forgiveness...26, 52, 77, 78, 170, 256, 317, 

379, 

Forgotten. 

Forms. 

Fortitude. 

Fortune. 

Fought. 

Found. 

Foundation. 


Fountain.2, 19, 124, 

Fossil. 

Fox. 

Fraud. 

Frederick. 

Freedom.142, 173, 

Frenzied.. 

Frequent. 

Fret. 

Friend.170, 268, 

Frontiersman. 

Fruit.269, 282, 291, 320, 410, 429, 

Full.408, 

Funeral. 


312 

334 

473 

473 

382 

408 

237 

134 

137 

495 

103 

279 

371 
461 
399 
142 
262 
288 

6 

425 

395 

417 

331 

178 

15 

76 

103 

454 

453 

216 

203 

437 

364 

430 

425 

237 

25 

325 

245 

493 

471 

372 


G 


Gain.50, 166, 175 

Ganges. 351 

Garibaldi. 214 

Garden.20, 137, 412 

Garret. 374 

Gates.20, 477 

Geese. 149 

Generations. 251 

Gentleness. 22 

Genius.32, 105, 377 

Genuine.<_. 240 

Gideon. 158, 261 

Gifted. 168 

Giotto. 410 

Girls. 241 

Giving.123, 159, 161, 204, 411 

Gladstone. 1 

Gloom. 400 

Glorify. 148 

Glory. 250 

Goal. 359 

God.76, 77, 82, 156, 264, 308 

Godliness. 423 

Good.25, 108, 268, 334, 489, 494 

Goodness.22, 423 

Gold.136, 208, 295, 301, 387 

Goliath. 278 

Gospel. 331 

Grace.45, 250 

Grady. 189 

Graft. 414 

Grapes. 369 

Grant. 314 


Gratitude.185, 199, 210, 237, 303, 393, 

445, 496 

Grave . 311 

Gravitation. 262 

Great.58, 274, 496 

Greed.42, 107 

Grief.187, 271, 350 

Grotius_-.. 248 

Grovel. 262 

Grow.92, 361. 428 

Guard.,.278, 393, 476 

Guest. 375 

Guide.69, 132, 149, 198, 354, 441, 457 

Guilt.137, 180, 364, 417, 472 

Gutter. 394 


H 


Habit.21, 102, 174, 194, 207, 215, 249, 

315, 326, 349, 375, 385, 404, 428, 452, 

Hair. 

Hand.44, 142, 198, 

Handwrite.. 

Hanged. 

Happy.279, 370, 464, 

Harbor. 

Harmony.75, 218, 459, 

Harp.. 

Harshly. 

Harvest.50, 356, 382, 

Haste.8, 

Hate. 

Hawk. 

Healed.114, 

Health... 

Hell.86, 99, 121, 

Help.84, 95, 102, 106, 121, 150, 174, 

235, 244, 280, 285, 366, 444, 454 

Hearing.162, 254, 327, 

Hedgehog. 

Heart. 


Heavy. 

Heaven.66, 100, 120, 

Heavens.43, 431, 

Heir. 

Herd. 

Hereafter. 

Heredity.188, 251, 

Hermit. 

Heroic.62, 128, 276, 

Hidden... .69, 126, 136, 164, 192, 229, 273, 

320, 380, 389, 407, 455, 

Higher.205, 262, 

Highlander. 

Hindered.34, 206, 212, 219, 351, 487, 

History.288, 

Holding. 

Holy. 

Home... .189, 218, 226, 243, 253, 272, 281, 

308, 399, 416, 

Homesick. 

Honesty.472, 

Honor.35, 128, 244, 295, 384, 

Hook. 

Hope.341, 362, 

Horror. 

Hospital. 

Hour. 

Howard. 

Human.299, 

Humble.209, 334, 385, 392, 

Husband. 

Hustle. 

Hypocrite.16, 221, 


467 

380 

362 

182 

276 

469 

400 

464 

33 

194 

460 

442 

279 

258 

489 

489 

167 

485 

398 
132 
409 
406 
409 
479 
197 
427 

82 

345 

218 

314 

459 

282 

322 

494 

462 

263 

487 

419 

185 

498 

449 

353 

426 
494 
170 

45 

384 

469 

470 

399 

427 
411 


I 


Ideals.189, 211, 338, 357, 421 

Idols.. 140 













































































































































INDEX 


417 


PAGE 

Ignorance. 238 

Illustrate. 460 

Image.47,71, 321, 387, 459 

Imagination.223, 292 

Immediate. 73 

Immodest. 227 

Immoral. 227 

Imperiled. 179 

Impious. 363 

Important.288, 429 

Importunate. 306 

Impossible. 431 

Impression..... 95 

Impulse. 435 

Impurity.129, 351 

Incessant. 75 

Inconsistent. 485 

Inconstant. 9 

Indecision.176, 400 

Indelible. 24 

Independence. 338 

Indians.130, 162, 343, 359 

Indiscreet. 465 

Indulgence. 487 

Industry. 224 

Infatuated. 323 

Infidelity.65, 86, 184, 268, 279, 293, 

332, 483 

Influence.... 19, 39, 57, 58, 63, 84, 97, 108, 

113, 121, 186, 293, 314, 365, 391, 474, 

480, 491 

Ingersoll. 4 

Ingratitude. 246 

Inheritance. 197 

Innate. 340 

Inner. 275 

Innocent.180, 188, 364, 496 

Inquisition.82, 229 

Inside. 291 

Insignificant. 231 

Inspected.116, 414 

Inspiration. 315 

Instruction. 265 

Insubordination. 259 

Insurrection. 317 

Intellect..460, 466 

Intercession. 8 

Interested. 89 

Interfere. 108 

Intoxicant.37, 395 

Invaded. 375 

Invention. 494 

Invisible.88, 136, 315 

Invitation.32, 406, 411 

Irreverent. 363 

Ivories. 499 


Jackson. 78 

Jail. 315 

Jew. 472 

Journey.66, 468 

Joy.22, 120, 151, 202, 217, 302, 409 

Judge. 202 

Judgment.194, 277, 462 

Jurist. 248 

Just. 381 

Justify. 104 


PAGE 

Kneel.127, 249, 317, 353, 393 

Knock. 458 

Know.26, 104, 146, 159, 200, 225, 284, 466 


Labor.50, 421 

Lack.184, 284 

Ladder. 120 

Lamb.114, 172 

Language. 215 

Lantern. 270 

Last.153 

Lasting. 304 

Late.1S2, 253, 285, 343, 356 

Laugh. 356 

Law.202, 308 

Lawyer. 86 

Leaf. 389 

Learning.248, 274, 402, 489 

Led. 490 

Legal. 352 

Lesson. 290 

Letters. 367 

Liberty.318, 344 

License. 495 

Lied.483, 495 

Life.18, 19, 25, 84, 88, 92, 94, 95, 118, 

119, 125, 129, 134, 156, 159, 160, 165, 

166, 175, 179, 187, 200, 234, 250, 251, 

253, 258, 269, 272, 291, 308, 409, 455, 

461, 489, 494 

Lift.135, 235, 404 

Light.1, 31, 41, 54, 75, 119, 125, 157, 

260, 302, 376, 391, 406, 409, 435, 439, 463 

Light-house.125, 270, 454 

Lilliputian. 326 

Lincoln. 495 

Linnaeus. 496 

Liquor.186, 447, 495 

Listening.342,407, 423 

Listless. 375 

Litanies. 331 

Littles.18, 79, 113, 126, 197, 212, 228, 

241, 243, 252, 266, 290, 310, 354, 383, 

403, 428 

London. 192 

Loneliness. 275 

Longingly. 237 

Long-suffering. 22 

Look. 237 

Loom. 230 

Lord. 456 

Lorenz. 446 

Lost.. .68, 87, 103, 121, 143, 175, 179, 207, 

231, 288, 320, 325, 356, 376, 387, 400, 

416, 429, 461 

Love.22, 45, 58, 94, 103, 114, 167, 180, 

200, 232, 241, 256, 289, 304, 327, 334, 

371, 400, 409 

Loyalty. 249 

Lucknow. 217 

Lukewarm. 125 

Lure.. 415 

Luscious. 291 

Lust.107, 408 

Luther. 307 

Luxury.258, 370 


M 


K 


Key. 

Killed.93, 191, 203, 

Kindness...163, 309, 

Kingdom.4, 

Kiss..,.,., . .. .229, 



Madness. 

. 330 

481 

Majesty. 

. 96 

200 

Maiden. 

. 378 

430 

Malignant. 

. 415 

363 

Man. 

.47, 400, 470 

7 

Mania. 

. 211 

323 

Marbles. 

. 444 




































































































































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INDEX 


PAGE) 


PAGE 


Markmanship. 424 

Marred. 350 

Marriage. 268 

Mask.16, 389 

Mastery. 105 

Mean. 420 

Meditate.272, 349, 453 

Meekness.22, 375 

Memorial. 414 

Memories.95, 256, 339 

Merchant.190, 192, 195, 349, 499 

Mercy.35, 381, 484 

Merrimac. 276 

Message.. .14, 147, 178, 231, 275, 309, 350, 

357, 398, 456 

Microscope.310, 351 

Might. 126 

Millionaire.257, 270, 440 

Mind. 432 

Miner. 463 

Mingle. 269 

Minister.268, 293 

Minstrel. 342 

Minutes.27, 397 

Miracle.428, 467, 489 

Miserable. 374 

Miserere. 464 

Misguided. 227 

Missed.,. 126 

Mission. 270 

Missionary.242, 245 

Mistake.72, 382, 412 

Mixing. 17 

Monastery. 461 

Money.43, 101, 257, 285, 399, 499 

Monster. 101 

Months. 421 

Monument.10, 311, 388, 491 

Moody. 490 

Morals.89, 215, 254, 338, 376 

Morphine. 233 

Mother... 189, 243, 256, 260, 274, 281, 289, 

296, 304, 395, 401, 417, 453 

Mountain. 137 

Mourn. 307 

Moved. 97 

Much. 327 

Muddy. 482 

Music.89, 215, 254, 338, 376 

Mutiny. 364 

Mystery.200, 275 

Mythology.381,415, 418 


N 


Name.210, 417 

Nansen. 178 

Napoleon.72, 161, 182, 247 

Natural.362, 368, 377, 452, 497 

Navy.278, 334, 424 

Need.28, 227, 252, 272, 277 

Negligence.28, 141, 179, 196, 253, 376 

Negro.152, 199 

Nests. 340 

Neutral. 355 

Never. 92 

New.165, 166, 201, 360 

Newton. 117 

Night.103, 111, 125, 239, 300 

Nobility.96, 209, 283, 359, 490 

Noise. 175 

Norway.172, 377 

Now.77, 82, 147 

Nursery. 263 


O 


Oath. 417 

Obedience.91, 146, 259, 279, 466 


Offer. 
Og... 
Oka.. 
Old.. 


Omnipotent. 

One. 

Opinion.... 
Opportunity 

Option. 

Orbit. 

Orchard.... 

Order. 

Orphaeus... 

Outcast. 

Overalls_ 

Overcome... 
Overflowing. 

Owe. 

Oxen. 

Oyster. 


.48, 435 

. 173 

. 499 

30, 165, 326, 468 

. 351 

.126, 269 

. 467 

....42, 272, 453 

.435, 492 

. 394 

. 291 

.431, 466 

. 418 

. 395 

. 43 

17, 178, 209, 379 

. 2 

. 411 

. 406 

. 402 


P 


Paganini. 18 

Pain.5, 289, 300, 397 

Painting.220, 488 

Palm.64, 115 

Pantheist. 261 

Parable.445, 461 

Pardon.^.4, 180, 364, 430 

Parent.340, 416 

Park. 93 

Passover. 236 

Pastor.3, 222 

Patience.54, 83, 151, 208, 339 

Path. 254 

Pauper. 268 

Peace.22, 26, 111, 184, 275, 293, 422 

Pearl. 477 

Penalty.53, 201 

Perfect.269, 339, 389, 459 

Peril.254, 302, 446 

Perish.133, 462 

Perplexity. 149 

Persecution. 145 

Persevere. * .59, 97, 177 

Personal.158, 202, 260, 346 

Pest.212, 271 

Photograph. 497 

Phylloxera. 271 

Physical. 469 

Physician.233, 451 

Piccolo. 126 

Piety. 16 

Pigeon. 178 

Pigs. 133 

Pilgrim.144, 468 

Pillow. 120 

Pilots. 69 

Pit. 235 

Pity.425, 468 

Plague. 196 

Plain. 26 

Play. 140 

Pleasure....90, 92, 140, 163, 229, 298, 302, 

318, 390 

Pliable. 9 

Plowing. 271 

Point.81, 185 

Poison. 387 

Policeman. 170 

Politeness. 290 

Pollution. 129 

Pope.161, 295 

Portraits. 473 

Positive. 19 

Possessions. 97 

Possible. 428 

Pottery. 209 

















































































































































INDEX 


419 


PAGE 


PAGE 


Powder. 423 

Power.35, 45, 102, 106, 164, 204, 295, 

325, 332. 345, 391, 490 

Poverty.7, 15, 67, 174, 199, 268, 366, 

370, 399, 461, 496 

Practice.95, 174, 278, 354, 423 

Praise.153, 414 

Prattlement. 325 

Prayer.. .23, 52, 55, 95, 108, 127, 147, 279, 

297, 306, 312, 313, 321, 335, 368, 434, 

453, 461, 488 

Preacher.. .74, 156, 213, 222, 224, 420, 423, 

481, 485 

Precious. 136 

Pre-eminent. 473 

Preferred. 236 

Prejudice. 448 

Preparation.7, 14, 111, 157, 278 

Presumptive.261, 454 

Prey.49, 149 

Price. 142 

Pride.13, 211, 268, 334, 363, 366 

Prince. 385 

Prison.. .31, 38, 49, 53, 165, 170, 259, 276, 

360, 395 

Privilege. 12 

Problem. 350 

Procrastination.21,72, 77 

Prodigal.151, 204, 253, 423 

Profanity. 293 

Profession.38, 356, 486 

Profit. 373 

Profligate. 253 

Prohibit.376, 492, 495 

Prolific. 377 

Prominent. 491 

Promise.4, 35, 219 

Promontory. 267 

Promotion... 384 

Proof.. 490 

Prosperity.268, 382, 371, 452 

Proud.13, 211, 268, 334, 363, 366 

Provide. 241 

Providence.383, 463 

Prudery. 227 

Public.354, 356 

Publican. 52 

Punishment. 308 

Purchased. 344 

Purity.227, 293, 325, 482, 489 

Purpose.282, 342, 389, 407 


Q 


Quaker. 116 

Quick. 389 

Quiet.90, 157, 272, 276, 357, 379 


Reform. 447 

Refuge.55, 201 

Refuse.325, 435 

Regenerate. 203 

Regret.163, 350, 425 

Regularity. 57 

Rehearsal. 126 

Rejoice. 192 

Relics. 251 

Relief. 254 

Religion....)........'. .116, 152,' 235) 260, 427 

Remedy.289, 467 

Remember.417, 444, 451, 493 

Reminiscence. 420 

Renounce. 14 

Reparation. 201 

Repent.104, 165, 201 

Repetition. 295 

Rescue.3, 24, 171, 179, 217, 224, 226, 

227, 254, 378, 386, 426, 430, 469, 485 

Reserve.164, 338 

Resignation.306, 353 

Resisted. 121 

Resolution.187, 190, 280, 315, 316 

Responsible. 429 

Rest.27,40, 111, 118, 184 

Restitution. 335 

Results.54, 110, 131, 403 

Resurrection. 352 

Retrace. 426 

Return. 442 

Revealed. 462 

Revel. 73 

Reverence.76, 110, 127, 268, 327, 351, 

373, 392, 454 

Review. 384 

Revival.61, 171, 335 

Revard.131, 295, 403 

Rhone. 482 

. Riches.15, 140, 257, 399, 498 

Riffraff. 366 

Robertson.160, 420 

Roosevelt.278, 401 

Rope.3, 107, 133, 466 

Rootage. 326 

Roses. 304 

Rough.170, 452 

Royalty.112, 385 

Rubbish.116, 273 

Rubens. 213 

Rude. 290 

Ruin.175, 268, 281, 374, 491 

Runner. 359 

Ruskin.118, 134, 274 

Rusty. 352 


S 


R 


Ragged. 

Raikes. 

Ransom. 

Raphael. 

Rapturous- 

Read. 

Ready. 

Reaping. 

Reason. 

Rebellion. 

Recant. 

Receive. 

Reckless. 

Reckon. 

Reclaim. 

Recommend 

Redeem. 

Re-enforcement 


.... 303 
.... 110 
.... 53 
.92, 488 
.... 377 
.... 150 
278, 405 
.... 212 
.24, 390 
.... 392 
.80, 145 
.... 256 
.... 87 
302, 489 
137, 141 
.... 409 
.75, 426 
.... 423 


Sabbath.314, 363, 373, 444, 445 

Sacrament. 279 

Sacred.327, 487 

Sacrifice.142, 461 

Sad. 464 

Safe. .11, 135, 142, 201, 239, 252, 253, 263, 

415, 418, 441 

Saint. 476 

Sailor.313,372, 465 

Saloon.175, 473, 492, 495 

Salvation. 151 

Sandow. 316 

Sankey. 480 

Santiago. 363 


Satisfaction... 104, 265, 275, 284, 300, 318, 

329 381 493 

Saved. .3, 6,13, 42, 60, 66, 67, 82, 119) 12l) 

123, 128, 133, 143, 147, 151, 154, 167, 

179, 192, 233, 278, 289, 341, 353, 364, 

378, 450, 465 


































































































































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INDEX 


PAGE 


Scarlet.24, 497 

School.309, 4G0 

Science.382, 433 

Scoffer.76, 236 

Scriptures.31, 65, 117, 134, 371 

Secret.36, 94, 209, 275, 368, 369, 455, 

462, 489 

Security. 210 

Seed. 192 

Seeking.103, 116, 208, 273, 301, 361, 

421, 493 

Selfish. 92 

Sensuality. 227 

Sentenced. 317 

Separate.231, 445 

Sepoy. 259 

Serenade. 427 

Sermon.156, 192, 245, 374, 481 

Serpents.99, 108, 313 

Serious. 73 

Serve.35, 150, 327, 403, 405, 427, 470 

Settled. 360 

Severe. 452 

Shackled. 360 

Shaftesbury.303, 366 

Shame. 285 

Share. 301 

Sheep.103, 172 

Shepherd.103, 109, 127, 475 

Shine.75, 125 

Shoemaker. 194 

Shouting.217, 485 

Shrine. 468 

Shrink. 92 

Sick.233, 397 

Sigh. 200 

Sight.41, 51, 136, 184, 200 

Signal.207, 228, 384, 494 

Silence.28, 83, 95, 214, 243, 272, 315, 403 

Sin.5, 6, 19, 24. 29, 52, 101, 102, 104, 

105, 107, 121, 135, 137, 142, 171, 254, 

262, 285, 308, 333, 342, 347, 392, 399, 472 

Sincere. 130 

Sing.163, 342, 415, 443 

Sisera. 363 

Skill. 499 

Sky.238, 262 

Slavery.53, 173, 344, 395 

Sleep.109, 366 

Slighted. 13 

Sling. 278 

Slow. 83 

Small.81, 97, 150, 383, 421, 474 

Smile. 163 

Smoothe.. 351 

Smuggler_:. 455 

Snare. 221 

Snow.129, 497 

Soft. 283 

Soil.326, 389 

Sold. 399 

Soldier.145, 214, 333, 336 

Solferino. 225 

Solomon. 382 

Somerset. 318 

Son. 256 

Song.163, 342, 415, 443 

Soon. 42 

Sorrow.26, 285, 364 

Sought. 60 

Souls.6, 54 

Soundness. 345 

Source.75, 124 

Sowing. 212 

Sparrow. 11 

Speed.3, 140 

Spell. 110 

Spencer. 390 

Spider..85, 107, 231 

Spirit. 156 


PAGE 


Spiritual. 220 

Spiritualist. 240 

Spot. 280 

Spree. 296 

Spurgeon.192, 302, 383 

Spy. 276 

Squalor. 366 

Square. 391 

Stability. 187 

Stage. 438 

Stain.280, 300 

Stalactites. 83 

Star.43, 150, 358, 394 

Statue. 422 

Stewards.. 438 

Stolen. 258 

Stopping. 494 

Storm.6, 82, 133, 154, 375, 392, 452, 454 

Straight. 150 

Strange.23, 74, 275 

Strawberries. 493 

Strayed. 425 

Strife. 299 

Stripes.114, 297 

Stripped. 259 

Strong.32, 406, 453 

Struggle.209, 286, 327, 347, 465 

Student.144, 264. 419, 421 

Stutter. 122 

Substitution. 216 

Success.91, 177, 210, 373, 421, 449 

Sudden..,... 494 

Suffering.289, 308, 405, 477 

Suicide. 167 

Sun. 238 

Sunday.57, 152, 363 

Superior.262, 472 

Supernatural. 352 

Supper.153, 241 

Supply. 88 

Support. 361 

Surfmen. 179 

Surgeon. 446 

Surprise. 251 

Swamp. 141 

Swearing. 417 

Swindle. 259 

Sword.128, 261 

Sympathy.170, 255, 275, 401 


T 

Tackle. 359 

Talmud. 20 

Tangled. 230 

Tapestry. 230 

Task.273. 328 

Taste.205, 484 

Teaching.110, 132, 181, 191, 215, 238, 

274, 309, 340, 447 

Tears.106, 321, 378 

Telescope.358, 479 

Telling.173, 260, 343 

Temper. 379 

Temperance.22, 130, 446, 498 

Temple. 250 

Temptation... .57, 209, 275, 296, 301, 400, 

403, 420, 447 

Tenancy. 202 

Test.145, 305, 414, 451, 454, 494 

Testimony.28, 372, 403 

Thanks.126, 132, 198, 256, 257, 371, 393 

Theater. 35 

Theft. 311, 427 

Theory. 354 

Thirst.124, 140, 329 

Thought....23, 87, 202, 243. 256. 272, 279, 

292, 308, 339, 400, 432 

Thread.... 107 



















































































































































INDEX 


421 


PAGE 


PAGE 


Thrift. 




268 

Throne. 




317 

Tide. 


.17 

, 19, 135, 

239 

Time. 




285 

Timorous. 




146 

Toil. 



.50, 

339 

Tomorrow.. 



.61, 

73 

Tongue. 



.1, 

34 

Tonic. 




281 

Tophet. 




176 

Torch. 




125 

Tovs. 




471 

Tract. 




365 

Tradition. 




461 

Tragedy. 




495 

Training. 



.187, 

340 

Tramping. 



.204, 

339 

Transfigured. 



.. 20, 98, 

488 

Transformation.... 


.54, 

102, 420, 

436 

Traps. 



.221, 

276 

Traveler. 




329 

Treacherous... 




139 

Treasure. 

116, 

161, 164, 

211, 244, 

301 

Trembling. 



253, 391, 

409 

Trials. 




25 

Trick. 




169 

Trifles. 




53 

Triumph. 



116, 269, 

466 

Troubles. 


.23, 271, 

379, 383, 

403 

Trough. 




74 

Trust. 



.241, 

484 

Truth.57, 61, 

147, 

315, 352, 

419, 492, 

495 

Turn. 



.208, 

362 

Types. 




462 


U 


U Bor Sing. 

Ugly.230, 

Unable. 

Unawares. 

Unbelieving. 

Understand. 

Unforgiving. 

Ungodly. 

Unhappy. 

Unitarian. 

United. 

Unlettered. 

Unseen.124, 

Unselfish. 

Unspeakable. 

Unwary. 

Useless.234, 


80 

436 

29 

109 

432 

12 

430 

293 

493 

117 

269 

248 

357 

92 

202 

221 

389 


V 


Vagabond. 

Value... .112, 160, 161, 209, 287, 295, 401, 

Vain.40, 50, 

Vase. 

Veneer. 

Ventured.139, 416, 

Verdict. 

Vesuvius. 

Vicarious.180, 

Vice. 

Victim.16 t 

Victoria. 

Victory... .42, 198, 209, 247, 347, 359, 363, 


Vineyard. 

Violin.18, 218, 284, 377, 

Virgin. 

Virtue. 

Vision.41, 189, 316, 357, 377, 


100 

459 

454 

287 

414 

478 

28 

137 

297 

252 

101 

355 

379 

179 

271 

459 

229 

277 

461 


Visited. 244 

Volcano. 409 

Voltaire. 4 

Voice. 315 

Void. 119 

Vow. 484 

Vultures. 374 


W 


Wailing. 464 

Waiting.254, 442 

Wakened. 228 

Wall.131, 193 

Wander.103, 256, 489 

Want.268, 284, 305, 351 

War. 191 

Warned.. .77, 121, 155, 288, 313, 390, 413, 

478, 482, 492 

Watch.81, 228, 441 

Watchword. 336 

Water.124, 270 

Waterloo.182, 219 

Waves. 154 

Wayward.253, 423 

Weakness.35, 316, 406 

Wealth....44, 188, 257, 318, 330, 434, 435, 436 

Weary. 493 

Weathervane. 371 

Weaving.230, 340, 462 

Web. 107 

Wedding. 402 

Weeping. 100 

Weighed.36, 49, 305, 351, 352, 437 

Welcome. 226 

Well. 270 

Wellesley. 272 

Wellington. 219 

Wesley. 186 

Whale. 386 

White.334, 497 

Wide. 425 

Widows. 335 

Wife.307, 332, 379 

Wilderness. 493 

Will. 102 

Win.30, 346, 353 

Winds. 149 

Wireless. 357 

Wisdom.390,458, 469 

Witness.204, 274, 355, 422 

Woman. 338 

Word.167, 290 

Work.105, 108, 131, 357, 370, 373 

World.19, 106, 285 

Worship.48, 250, 349 

Worthy.47, 412 

Wounded.26, 114, 254, 372 

Wrath. 283 

Wrecked.. .63, 175, 296, 301, 372, 438, 474, 494 

Wren. 228 

Writing. 182 


X-ray 


X 


223, 455 


Y 


Years. 
Yield. 
Yoke.. 
Young 


. 421 

.290, 384 

.;. 406 

..74, 94, 185, 187, 189, 249, 252, 

283, 374, 375, 428, 440, 447, 450, 468 



































































































































































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